I tell my students that if anyone tells them only bad people carry guns, they might wish to respond with the fact that a number of universally respected US Presidents among others have been known to pack iron. One of them was Dwight Eisenhower. Though his most famous personal hobby was playing golf, another was hunting birds and he had quite a collection of fine shotguns.
Also, in the Springfield Armory Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts is a copy of the revolver he carried, a .38 Colt Detective Special. He always kept it concealed. General officers of his time had the choice of the Colt Pocket Model in .32 or .380 caliber, or if they preferred a revolver, the Detective Special. George Patton had one in his “carry rotation” along with his more famous ivory-handled Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum and Colt Single Action Army .45, in addition to a Remington .380 and assorted other handguns.
It’s a little-known fact that when he was president of Columbia University he had a concealed carry permit from NYPD and told one biographer that during that period, he never set foot on the streets of New York City without “his old service revolver”…the Detective Special.
Interesting story on him and that gun, here: