The most prevalent attitude we see with those choosing to CCW is "I have a gun! Rock-paper-scissors-GUN-GUN-GUN!!!"
But they don't carry a rock, nor scissors, nor paper. They live by the motto "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight," obivious to a few things...like a higher percentage of people DIE from knife wounds than gunshots, that a firearm is dangerous in the direction it is pointed when fired, that those 15 projectiles they fire which miss hit something else...for which they are criminally and civilly liable.
They have a toolbox with one tool. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
My favorite example to give in CCW classes is this: you're shopping at 8pm on Christmas Eve and in the parking lot at Walmart, when out of the 100 people in the parking lot, one pulls a knife on you and demands your car keys. You are responsible for every round fired, where it hits, who it hits, what it hits.
If you're at the Walmart on Valencia and Mission, the knifeman is probably related to half the people in the parking lot.
What do you do?