I was driving after 2 AM with my wife in Jacksonville FL coming away from the Jazz festival there 20+ years ago and made a turn one exit too early from the interstate. We found ourselves in a very BAD part of the city and quickly had people running toward the car. I held up my FEG 9x18 and wife held up her S&W 38spec and the folks stopped and stayed back while we got turned around and went back up on the I-State. No CCW then but one doesn’t need it to have a gun in one’s car in FL and self defense is self defense. I have always had a gun in the car when away from hometown.
That’s a pretty amazing story. Good for you and your wife!