You’re buying into the mindset that being armed is something extraordinary and that conservatives should be defensive about it. Instead, it should be reinstituted as a common thing about which people don’t faint at first sight. Do you freak out too? Curious.
Only when the person carrying it uses it to intimidate other people, like walking slowly around a table of noisy people in a restaurant, making sure they see his penis..er gun, and telling them to keep the noise down, because he doesn't like noisy people disturbing his meal.