[newgeezer]

How does a concealed gun make a perp think anything? It's concealed.

As I said, "just the possibility that they're around " is key. Crime plummetted in FL a couple years ago after concealed-carry got easier. The perps didn't see any more weapons. They just knew that the good people of FL had applied and received the permits in droves.

From your #12: I can't think of anything to say to describe those many people out there I don't want to see carrying a gun,

Was it easy for Dianne Feinstein to take over your brain? ;-)

[anton]

It is a fact: states with concealed carry laws have a fraction of the street robberies and car jackings as states that don't. Unfortunately, some of the states with concealed carry laws also have more crime to begin with and so the statistics are skewed.