Living in Arkansas I dont leave the house with out carring my hand gun. There are alot of bad people in the world and somehow alot of them decide to live in Arkansas. Can't really say that about Arkansas, each state has their fair share of bad people. Either urban caching or caching in the woods I feel safer with my .40 cal. I haven't herd of anybody getting killed while caching in this state, but the ShadowCachers don't want to become a statistic. I know my wife and kids feel safer to cache in cities where the crime rate is high.