(February 13, 2014 at 2:47 pm)KUSA Wrote:(February 13, 2014 at 1:05 pm)Cato Wrote: I'm fine with gun ownership for home protection, but I don't agree with citizens running about town with them.
I am well protected at home and when I am out in town. I carry concealed in public everyday. I refuse to be a victim to some piece of shit that wants to hurt me or my loved ones.
You're missing the point. Carrying a concealed weapon may make you feel safer, but it won't help a bit if someone wants to walk up to you and blow you away. Real life doesn't allow you to respawn a block over in order to run back and try to get the bastard back.
Time and again we see people get carried away with a sense of false bravado because they are carrying a weapon, when without the weapon there is little chance of escalation (Zimmerman, jackass in Jax, dipshit in movie theater, man upset about snow in his yard). These people were NRA poster children right up to the moment before they brandished their gun. You and others walking in public with loaded guns doesn't protect anyone from lunatics, it only increases the chances of some 'tragic unfortunate gun related death'.