My argument is that permitting guns in public housing doesn’t go far enough. That is, many of the people in public housing were never raised with any form of legitimate “gun culture”, so they deserve some special training, likely provided by the NRA, to help them regain “family knowledge” of proper gun use and safety.
It’s the same idea as giving people training in the proper use of a table saw (admittedly a far more dangerous tool than a gun), if they had no familiarity with it, either.
So the question becomes: How can the training be made available to people who are otherwise poor?
In principle, since the housing authority has deprived them of their 2nd Amendment rights all these years, it would not be outrageous to require them to pay for at least a few group classes, for those individuals legally permitted to own firearms (no felons or mentally ill.)
On the plus side, once a gun culture has taken root, it will provide immediate dividends by strongly reducing crime and its associated costs.
In Tennessee there is a law that prohibits the police from charging you with a crime if you use a gun in self defense even if you are illegally carrying one. That law should apply to EVERYONE. Even felons have a right to protect themselves.