is the original reason for owning a gun, it probably tends to work well. Out in public, it's all a crapshoot as to the final outcome: accidentally killing someone with a concealed weapon that goes off, killing the wrong person in self defense, being targeted by other GGWG, or being targeted by police.

... a Rambo wannabe.

The pro-control side has the luxury, apparently, of being able to criticize CCW permittees for Rambo-like fantasies AND for not behaving like Rambo when shit happens. Mocking them for being so foolish and paranoid and afraid that they carry a gun, then mocking them for not going "Die Hard" on the bad guys when those fears are realized.

Of course, they themselves don't carry because they're Rambo-wannabes, and they're planning on using their gun only to defend themselves if pressed by need.

But they don't get asked, do they? No, they get TOLD what they're motives are by smug people behind a keyboard ago who thinks Zimmerman is some kind of typical standard of behavior.

If I had been in an adjacent building, or classroom, on campus, with a gun, I certainly would have sheltered in place behind a barricaded door.

Why?

Because I'm not a cop and I have no desire to die or kill.

Retreat or hiding, if possible, is always the better option. I can see the rationale behind the castle laws but the stand your ground laws are silly IMHO.

They presume to dictate a course of action for times when events can have a billion variables.

NOBODY should be required to retreat. Ever.

Not to mention how a requirement to retreat might just enable certain criminal mindsets.


Fuck.All.That.

Shooting somebody in legitimate self-defense still entails a legal and psychological mess for the survivor.


SYG.... it's complicated.

First they whine because folks carry personal life saving devices, now they whine because they didn't play hero with a gun.

There's just no pleasing these folks, it's like they have an agenda...

But the "hero with a gun" fantasies emanate from your side of the issue.

Have you taken classes in armed self-defense? If you had, you'd know they teach that only trained SWAT should run toward the sound of the gunfire. An armed citizen should hunker down and wait it out. The time to shoot is when and if the assailant busts down the door and starts executing everyone.

Carrying a gun is chiefly about personal self-defense. It is NOT social policy. Sometimes an armed civilian can and has thwarted crimes in public places, or lessened the havoc caused by the criminal. But that is not the main reason for carrying a gun: it is and always has been a self-defense measure.