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In reply to the discussion: Should the Zimmerman case make Neighborhood Associations [View all]penultimate
(1,110 posts)There are nice decent people who have legitimate safety concerns that might warrant them carrying a firearm. Take a woman (or man) who escaped an abusive lover who will not leave them alone. There are many other situations in which a person may have a legitimate concern about their personal safety because of their job (prosecutor or judge or someone who had to fire a lot of people)
I look suspiciously at people who just carry their guns around for the sake of carrying their guns around though. I wouldn't go as far as you go in saying they need to be locked up, but I do try to avoid being around such people. Although, the ones I avoid are the ones who have to make it known they are armed and talk about their guns a lot... That's a red flag to me.