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In reply to the discussion: Why do so many on DU seem to be against concealed carry? [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)in danger of the gun accidentally being fired. Remember the guy in the theater, the guy who shot his dick off, the gun that hit the floor in the restaurant. I do not feel I am safe around gun carriers. Also I think the risk to the public out weighs the right to carry around a gun. The chance that the carrrier doing "good" with the gun is not a high percentage.
I don't want some gunner thinking I need his or her protection. I am not afraid of society but the carrier is that's why they carry a gun. Society is not that dangerous. I think there is something wrong with a person who thinks they need to carry a gun in normal society. I can understand if your day requires you do go to dangerous places or you have a job like a Brinks driver. Our everyday society is not that kind of environment. And I fear people who feel the need to carry a gun. I fear them more than I fear being attacked by a criminal.
And I believe that the more guns we have the more gun violence there will be.
I read that we have 9,000 deaths to other countries 2 or 10 or something like that.
I do not accept gunners self serving gun propaganda.
Concealed carry is part of our gun culture and problem in this country. I think just the word "carry" without the carry "what" such as " I carry" is somehow part of the problem. It's as if there is a whole other world that gunners live in that separates them from the rest of us.
That separation is so visible here on DU. That separation keeps society in danger. The idea that there is a constitutional right to gun culture is in itself a bastardization of the very Constitution gunners say they believe in. The SCOTUS was built by the right just so that such issues of gun law would be turned in favor of the NRA.
There are enough guns in our country so that just about every man woman and child could carry one. That makes us a sick society.