If you work as a cable technician, 6 customers a day, that's around 2000 in a year. If 1 in 100 is mentally ill, in a bad mood (TV broken!) and with a gun ...

Maybe there's some selection bias: You'll tend to meet angry people, who are more dumb (couldn't fix the problem themselves?)?

Maybe in any weapon loving place, a job where you visit lots of people at their homes and help fixing something that's broken, is mildly dangerous?

Especially if you’re disconnecting service - I dare say the repo tow truck drivers encounter MANY more gun incidents than the average AAA tow truck driver.

However I suspect the repo company allows its employees (or they’re self-employed) to carry in retaliation - I strongly suspect that the cable companies don’t allow their repairmen to pack heat.

It’s like the thin bread line - pizza delivery is more dangerous than being a cop.

>However I suspect the repo company allows its employees (or they’re self-employed) to carry in retaliation

I doubt it. That'd be a huge liability.

Dig into it further; it's been one of the "qualifying reasons" for some of the states with the hardest-to-get CCW permits.

Remember that repo companies are often incredibly small single-person "companies" contracted out.