Q. Why would someone need a handgun to buy bread? 😳

[davsand]

45. The threat of a parking lot attack is used to "sell" carrying to women.

My brother and his wife are both conceal carry instructors as well as NRA lovers (don't even ask how holidays go in my family!) They regularly take tactical weapons training classes. My SIL is some kind of local board member in a group that promotes "well armed women" and my brother actually does expert testimony in cases defending somebody that shoots somebody else. They don't leave the house without carrying at least a gun and a knife. Not entirely sure how a retired lawyer and a retired grade school teacher living in a town of <5000 got this terrified of the world, but they are.

One of the many disturbing things about my brother and his wife is the videos they promote that feature unknown assailants attacking unwary women in parking lots or at gas stations. the whole schtick is that you are alone. You are vulnerable. You NEED a gun. That is how they promote the fear. It's revolting.

I've had a life a privilege, but I've also experienced domestic violence and abuse, I've had a gun pulled on me, been stalked, witnessed a murder. My husband was born in East St Louis and he worked in their family bakery there. Many of his lifetime friends worked in ESL, and still live there. He lived for three years in Chicago Heights and lost friends to murder. NEITHER one of us owns a gun--let alone arms up to go buy groceries or gas. It isn't that we think something bad can't happen. We know better than that. We just refuse to live in fear.

To answer the original question, scared people arm themselves to go buy bread.