[hga]

Utterly appalling that someone who took the nom de plume of cincinnatus would say that.

I'm someone who carries concealed every time I step outside my dwelling, unless I have to go to a "Gun Free Zone". Tell me exactly how my understanding of the world is "cartoonish". Use e.g. my past comments as a base. Other sources on request, but as a hint, my login name is the same one I've used since 1978 (sic), my initials.

[cincinnatus]

You may be level headed and well adjusted by surely you've noticed the large number of people who are CCW proponents who are not? More importantly is this; when a gun is part of the equation there is now a non-zero chance someone is going to get shot.

The vast majority of the time the only gun in the vicinity is going to be that of the CCW. MOST people go through their entire lives without ever encountering a 'bad guy with a gun'. Ever.

People who CCW think they are bringing a gun to a gun fight, when maybe they are bringing a gun to a fist fight, or a stern conversation.

[hga]

"You may be level headed and well adjusted by surely you've noticed the large number of people who are CCW proponents who are not?"

Nope. Name names.

"More importantly is this; when a gun is part of the equation there is now a non-zero chance someone is going to get shot."

Add your comment about a fist fight, which it is well established can be deadly. You're on the side of the criminals, while I'm obviously on the side of the law abiding civilians ... not much point in continuing this "debate".