If most people went armed, there would be few if any mass shootings.
That would come at the cost of more accidental shootings (many people are idiots, and if most people went armed, a large percentage of them would be armed idiots)/
Also probably at least some increase in “road rage” type shootings. Presently those who CC are a small, self-selected elite. If most people went armed the mix of armed people would change, and not for the better.
Imagine someone walking into a theater and opening fire. 100 people return fire, some of them probably inaccurately.
If you're afraid of carrying a gun, fine, DON'T. But don't project your problems on the rest of us, ok?
Idiot!
In a parallel universe, those events might occur, but in THIS universe where we’ve had widespread CC for years, they haven’t.
>>Presently those who CC are a small, self-selected elite. If most people went armed the mix of armed people would change, and not for the better.
No one is saying that most people should be forced to carry. If the “small, self-selected elite” was permitted to carry anywhere, most active shooter situations would be resolved as soon as they begin. A CCW permit should be a permit to walk armed past a “No Guns” sign.
The facts are in, and they are opposite what you stated in #17.
In every state when CCW laws came in, crime went down, and your liberal fantasy of proliferating road-rage incidents did NOT happen.
Nice try, now scurry on back to the Daily Besst, HuffPo or DU, and report on your trolling expedition over to the Constitutional side.
Imagine someone walking into a theater and opening fire. 100 people return fire, some of them probably inaccurately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqc1x3_Evg
A very common site on roads in aforementioned areas are pick-up trucks with rifle racks. Said racks have rifles loaded and ready. In addition said occupants of said truck often have handguns loaded and ready under the seats.
Yet crime is negligible. Why do you suppose that is?
Yeah, part of the equation is that inhabitants of said areas have traditional values and traditional morals. They may be dirt poor but would no more even think of robbing and killing you than a street thug in one of your inner cities would think of getting a minimum wage job at McDonald's and working his way through trade school.
The other part of that equation is that armed citizens are so prevalent that there is a high chance that even attempting to rob or kill someone could end with fatal results for the perps. It is much easier to hunt prey in the nearest big city where guns are frowned upon.
Prior to the modern era, large numbers of people carried guns. They went to stage performances, circuses and so on. How many mass casualty events have been reported in shooting incidents? None that I have seen recorded.