If you look at the statistics in Texas, where just about everyone owns a gun by choice, you just don't see the crime there like you do in other places. If you are 'bad', you don't follow the rules. Is the 'bad' person going to try using a gun on a group of people he knows also have guns and are willing to use them for protection? No way....they'll go to that nice place where all the 'good' people are against guns and violence and take them for a ride. Once our gun privileges are taken away, we will all be sitting ducks for all the 'bad' people who do not follow the rules. Please know that all societies that give up their way of protecting themselves will lose all rights in very short time...they'll have no choice.
Again so true. Most of these horrific events happen in places where the assailant knows the people are not carrying or places where people are not allowed to carry. But let it be someplace where the law is on the gun owners side and the cowards seem in my own opinion to think twice. A prime example of that for those who remember the Luby's restaurant tragedy (sorry if it brings up some bad feelings
) in Texas. Imagine what would have happened if people had been allowed to carry into the restaurant. And because of that some laws in Texas changed. It took a tragedy to bring about change in that sense