Time to be "Well Regulated"?

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38. Your post is confusing ...

as you stated:

"Then there are guns that shot far deadly concealable to be of any use except to kill people at a bar fight or stick up the local convenience store."

I assume you are saying that some handguns are far too small and compact and consequently can be easily concealed and used to kill innocent people.

It is true that criminals often use such firearms but it is also true that many citizens are licensed to carry concealed weapons in our nation. In Florida, for example, over 800,000 people living in the state have a concealed weapons permit. Many chose to carry small, light and compact handguns as in the heat of Florida where a jacket is usually worn only on a few days in the colder winter months, these weapons are easier to conceal. Florida law requires your legal weapon to be concealed except for a brief inadvertent flash such as when a person was walking in a parking lot and a gust of wind lifted his jacket.

I personally carry a 5 shot S&W .38 caliber snub nosed revolver in my pants pocket. In the 15 years or so that I have carried it, not one person that I walked past or talked to on the street knew that I was armed. That includes police officers that I had conversations with.

If I planned to get into a bar fight or stick up a store, I would carry a larger handgun that holds far more rounds. Since I have absolutely no intention to ever do something as stupid as that and since I carry this weapon because of the extremely unlikely possibility that I would have reason to use it to saved my life or my health, I wish to carry the smallest and lightest handgun that I can find that will be an adequate self defense weapon.