[NJ_gent]

"Street cops I've talked to in my city like having legally armed citizens out there."

"Hello? Police? I've just shot an intruder."
is a heck of a lot better for them than
"Hello? Police? There's an intruder - he's armed; I'm not."

[Emmett McCarthy]

Yeah, the cops would much rather just have to use the chalk to draw the outline of the bad guy's dead body on the ground and I really don't blame them. The basic rule is that the best way to survive a gunfight is to avoid a gunfight. More armed citizens - on the street and in the home - cuts way down on the bad guys who are willing to risk it.