OLK, I am guessing wintersun has been smoking too many funny shaped cigarettes.
We will be in Indio, CA for 6 weeks in half of Dec up to early Feb and then, on the way home to TUCSON area we will be staying a week in YUMA.
I have a CCW permit although not needed in AZ; mainly as I have protection with me when we travel and if provides authenticity of my possession in the truck or trailer .... had to pass a background check to get it.
Again, I have yet to see any issues where we live south of Tucson, in Tucson (other than normal groups of bad people that you have in any city in the U S) or in Yuma.
Mike mck's last paragraph states it so well.