Hat tip to Richard who sent this in, but honest, I’ve never seen him packing! There are 1.3 million realtors, and 2-3 get killed every year – I’ll take my chances. But I don’t think women should do open house by themselves.

Realtors often go into houses they don’t know, with people they’ve just met. Safety efforts have become a real focus, but the potential for violence has some of them taking up arms.

Scott Smith spends a lot of time at the range, making sure if he has to use his gun, he’s fully trained and ready.  But Smith doesn’t just shoot for sport. He legally carries a concealed gun for his job as a realtor.

“People think realtors have a lot of money, that they are rolling in the dough, so people automatically think – ‘there’s an easy target.'”

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