Chuck Norris knows how to deal with shopping mall attacks. If we armed the citizenry there would be a huge impediment to those attacks.
You said, “If we armed the citizenry there would be a huge impediment to those attacks.”
We’ve got a good number of armed citizens in Oklahoma and in Tulsa. I know, because I know quite a few around me. HOWEVER ... let me tell you that while this is good for the good guys, in order to protect themselves of some others around them in a critical situation ... it really is NOT a deterrent ... because the bad guys are treating it all as if they are in the Wild Wild West, and they are ready to take their chances — and THEY DO.
It’s basically NOT A DETERRENT, but it can end up being a protection for someone, if they are in a critically life threatening situation ... not always, but it “can be”.