If you're afraid of carrying a gun, fine, DON'T. But don't project your problems on the rest of us, ok?
Idiot!
Thanks for your courteous and intelligent reply. / s
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit, is it?
I posited a world in which “most” people went armed, something that would be necessary if all or most attempted mass shooting were to be immediately opposed by armed civilians.
At present, there are about 8M CCW permit holders in the USA. Not all of them carry at all times. Let’s assume half do.
That means at any given time, 4M Americans, or about 1.5% are armed in public. That is a self-selected and very elite group. Few of them are idiots, and, as we know, the vast majority use their weapons responsibly.
Raise the armed percentage to 51%, and the group becomes a great deal less elite. It’s a hypothetical argument, because it isn’t going to happen. But I think it’s indisputable that if MOST people went armed, bad things would follow, though mass shootings would disappear.
I assume you will agree that a high percentage of the population are idiots. Look who they vote for! If MOST people went armed, a high percentage of those carrying would therefore, by definition, be idiots. Yet we are to assume that there would be no negative consequences following from millions of armed idiots on the street?