Does anybody really think it's a good idea if everyone in society carried a concealed weapon?
240, you talk about your gun ad-nauseum. Are you really advocating that everyone carry a firearm?
Everyone? No. If a person passes a background check, written and firing tests to show he is competent and well-aware of the law, has never had a mental defect, and is well aware that if that gun ever shows - even the wind blowing your shirt up - you get one yeat behind bars automatic. Then, yes.
I don't like guns, they'll never be in my house but I don't want to ban them either. There are enough gun laws on the books as it is, what we need is enforcement.
I believe giving everyone that is qualified a license to carry a concealed weapon is a recipe for disaster.
(just a hpothetical) - If one man with a gun ever forces his way into your home, you are at his mercy. Think about that. He can line you up, then rape, kill, at his choosing. Family too. You can fight of course, but you will take a bullet and bleed out. And that's it, your life is over. Fate. Bad luck, whatever.
I'm guessing there are a LOT of people whose last thought is "wow, maybe I
should have got a gun for the house" right before the intruder puts their lights out.
I don't ever want that helpless feeling. Statistically, it probably won't happen. but it has to happen to someone. I'd rather die firing back, or not at all, than on the ground shitting myself, crying, praying someone else in the room has a gun and will save my skin.