Why do so many on DU seem to be against concealed carry?

[Savannahmann]

62. Fine, you asked.

First, the prevalence of guns, be they licensed or illegally carried have done nothing to improve the safety of the citizenry. The claims to the contrary are clearly demonstrated to be absolutely false by the fact that tens of thousands die every year from gun violence. By contrast, civilized nations with very strict gun laws have their deaths in the tens or perhaps hundreds. So by strict numbers, your "right" to endanger everyone around you by going around armed is asinine in the extreme.

Second. Your pathetic need to be protected by packing heat. I could go into the psychological examples of the phallic symbol, but why bother? You don't see anything wrong with dead children everywhere. Oh, you'll mouth the words. What a tragedy. But you won't do anything to prevent the tragedy from happening again. So instead I'll ask you this. How many must die in a single year before you'll even consider giving up your and everyone else's "right" to endanger the rest of us?

Third. A vast majority of uses of firearms against fellow citizens are in violation of laws. Last week, a woman in Atlanta was shot by a man in a wheelchair. While I'm sure you and the rest of the Second Amendment gang were cheering this exercise of the mans constitutional rights, I and others wondered when it would stop. The situation there was the woman had accidentally bumped his wheelchair, no harm done, with her car. She got out to apologize and see about the man she had accidentally bumped. Now, at this point in the story, she was absolutely wrong. She had not driven her car properly. She had made contact with a handicapped pedestrian. If the story had ended there, she would have been ticketed at the minimum by the police. The man in the wheelchair exercised his second amendment rights, and killed the woman. Witnesses were shocked, obviously. I mean, who gets shot over a minor vehicle accident. In this nation, with our asinine worship of the gun, we do.

In New York City, it was a newsworthy story that nobody got shot, or stabbed, on one day. One day without someone getting shot was a news story. But oh no, we can't do anything about guns. You have the right and while you personally haven't done anything to harm another with your gun, yet, millions of your fellow gun owners have.

So the answer is obvious, and just as obviously ignored. In England, a shooting is a big news story, because it almost never happens. In Canada, same thing. Yet in America, we cherish our right to be shot down for nothing all to protect your rights to be a douchbag and walk around dreaming of breaking up a robbery, or a murder with delusions of Dirty Harry running through your head.

Sorry, give me the chance to vote on it, and I'll vote to take your right to endanger the rest of us without a second thought.