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So, let's see now...if I was a lunatic looking for a little action, and I wanted to avoid the possibility of getting hurt or whacked during my attempted chicanery, would I go to the nearest police station and try to rob/rape a cop, or would I go to a place where the rotten politicians have assured me there will be nothing but unarmed potential victims???? Decisions, decisions.....

If 1% of the population carries concealed, how many potential crimes would that thwart? The "Why can't we all just get along?" crowd has absolutely no sense at all.

[esopman]

Your uncommon common sense will get nowhere with the victim disarmament crowd. I have long since given up in the effort to bring reason to the liberal mind. It is innoculated against discernment by an utterly emotional mindset.

The best response is to be quite politically active, contribute to certified RKBA candidates and learn to gently undermine the guns-are-evil lunacy with ridicule when a conversational gambit presents itself.

"Oh, I see now...the crime is really low in those cities where gun control is really tough. Like the old Sullivan act in the Big Apple. Washington DC. Baltimore MD." "It sure is skyrocketing here in rural Virginia where a lot of us are known to be loaded-fer-Bear. Yeah, that's right."

"Yep, the first thing I will think of when I catch a rapist on my daughter is 'Where is my cell phone - The 911 Dial-a-Prayer' service?"

The best thing this country could do would be to see that every sane non-criminal citizen had access to a nicely clocked & timed .357 revolver, was trained in its use and could freely carry. Thugs & terrorists would decline; politeness would skyrocket. (Yeah, I know, a 1911, or Glock or Sig would do as well...)

BLOAT.