Arizona has a solution for this.
“Permits? We don’ need no steenking permits!”
Violent crime is now limited to those who “aren’t from around here”, usually transients, and people who are so totally crazy they don’t care if other people are shooting at them, which they likely are.
Even Arizona’s crazy people are less crazy, because the survival instinct is one of the last bits of sanity to go. They try as hard as they can to keep the crazy under control, knowing that it could get them shot.
Anyone dumb enough to draw down on an Arizona cop deserves getting air-conditioned. And they are brandishing their guns less and less, as it is seen as a social faux pas in polite society. You do *not* brandish your gun at people who are armed without a very, very good reason.
An armed society isn’t just a polite society, it is downright Emily Post genteel. Young kids addressing adults as “Sir” and “Ma’am”, gentlemen tipping their hats to ladies, etc.
Thanks for that wonderful post, I missed it earlier.