I also carry a Beretta Tomcat loaded with hydra-shocks or my Ruger LCP .380
“MYTH: Guns are more likely to do harm than good.
REALITY: Guns are used at least hundreds of thousands of times a year for self-defense, far more often than they do harm”.
THIS is the No. 1 point that needs to be spread far and wide, but which the MSM does all it can to hide!
The recent tragedies have not altered this fact, they maybe nudged the percentage point .00001%.
I have had to use a firearm in self defense more than once, I moved away from that city/state to avoid it inevitably happening again.
I know far too many people who have had to defend themselves with a firearm in some manner.
They range from having to remodel the house once the cops released the scene to just yelling at the crud trying to break in that they would be shot if they came in.
All are self defense with a firearm, but only the ones with blood or a toe-tag make the biased news.
In fact most cases of self defense don’t even get a police report as victims do not need the hassle of becoming the “Suspect” from LE.
Which is the attitude they get since they are usually the only ones still around to be “Investigated”.
I also carry a Beretta Tomcat loaded with hydra-shocks or my Ruger LCP .380
Just the perception of an armsd citizenry makes an effective crime deterrent. 25 yrs ago we loved near Chester, NY, about 65 miles NW of NYC. The city started warehousing some of their homeless at a property they owned there. Suddenly there were a rash of muggings, assaults, burglaries, etc. In what can only be described as either cluelessness or shrewdness a councilman told the local media he was “shocked and concerned” about the sudden increase in sales of shotguns at the then newly opened Dicks nearby as well as an increase in CCP applications being submitted to the Orange Cty Sheriff’s office. Overnight the crime rate in Chester plummeted, NYC ended the practice of bussing homeless up there and Mayor Giuliani decided to sell that property at over a $1 million loss.