Concealed weapons. Yes or No ???

[Stearns]

Originally Posted by Turtle

I don't interpret the right to bear arms (which we do have and I cool with being able to fend off an occupying force) as the right to carry a concealed weapon. It's bad enough out here. We can have everybody blasting away at each other. And no I can't do it just because everybody else is doing it.

It boils down to I have to be the world I want to see.

48 states allow CCW; many for a very long time. The premise that these permits would result in a return to the Wild West has not borne out. Most people do not want to shoot another person just for the heck of it - it's for self-defense when faced with a choice between life and death/serious harm. I'm not afraid of CCW permit holders; it's the citizens with firearms who have no formal training that I'm scared of. And, the criminals, of course.