[biblewonk]

There is about 50,000 murders in this country every year.

That's not correct, there are much fewer than the 41,000 traffic fatalities.

I have been robbed twice on the street.

Sorry to hear that but the government can't protect people who throw themselves into moving trucks either. I don't know your circumstances but I have to wonder on what street and at what time of day.

A kid driving a car was shot in the face a block from my house.

How would CCW have helped him or anyone from a sucker punch/shooting? It won't.

An elderly lady was almost shot in the head at the hardware store that I go to every week.

CCW won't help her either.

Nothing by the government has happened like that. My truck was broken into and the government didn't do it.

So was mine, twice. Again, CCW is no help is it?

[spunkets]

"Again, CCW is no help is it?"

It's not your decision to make! The decision belongs to the individual man who contemplates whether, or not, he wants a gun handy.

[Shooter 2.5]

The kid that was shot in the face didn't have anyone chase down the shooter. The lady in the parking lot was struggling with the person with the gun. When I was robbed, I could have stopped both if I was able to just display a gun. All of the incidences could have led to the aprehension of the criminals. Three of the incidences would never have happened if I or the lady had a gun.

[newgeezer]

> I have been robbed twice on the street.

Sorry to hear that but the government can't protect people who throw themselves into moving trucks either.

Maybe I missed something. Who said anything about the government's protection? The point is, the streets would be safer if the thug wasn't so sure there's no one around (if not his potential victim) to cap him.

I don't know your circumstances but I have to wonder on what street and at what time of day.

If it's not my neighborhood and it's dark, ... Well, the night time is just for hoot owls and horse theives, right? If an invalid needs a nurse's house call in the middle of the night, but he happens to live in a bad neighborhood, the nurse should just say 'no.'

What if it's my own neighborhood and the middle of the day? I can either take my chances (throw myself into the path of your moving truck), or be a prisoner in my own home. All because the nanny state stacks the odds in the crooks' favor.

[butter pecan fan]

How would CCW have helped him or anyone from a sucker punch/shooting? It won't.

He might have been able to defend himself. Even if not, someone else might've been able to take down the assailant. Finally, the assailant might not have done the deed in the first place if he knew there might be armed law-abiding citizens within range.

Criminals are emboldened by unarmed victims.

CCW won't help her either.

Any trained person in the hardware store with a gun could've taken down the perp.

A sixty-something man with a two-shot derringer took out two handgun-armed thugs in an armed robbery, after he and others were ordered to lie face-down on the floor. Had this gentleman not been armed, he might well be dead now.

Again, CCW is no help is it?

Ask the elderly gentleman.