“if the neighborhood necessitates it, chambered”
A unloaded gun is useless. It’s a damned club. The second you waste racking the slide to charge the pistol is the second you may die.
Anyone not comfortable carrying a gun with a round in the chamber has no business owning a weapon.
“A unloaded gun is useless. It’s a damned club. The second you waste racking the slide to charge the pistol is the second you may die.”
That is true. But in this case, if he had not had a round chambered, the robber probably would not have got a shot off.
Absolutely!
“Anyone not comfortable carrying a gun with a round in the chamber has no business owning a weapon.”
In your opinion of course. On the other hand, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”