Gunman kills 3 at NC lumber company

[Atypical Liberal]

62. You are surrounded by the population as a whole, so it is completely appropriate to compare to them.

People like you keep saying that we should not allow concealed carry because people who carry concealed firearms might do bad things with their guns.

But compared to everyone else you are likely to encounter on the street, which includes the entire population, including those people who can't get a permit and those who can., CCW permit holders hardly ever are involved in crime.

You are surrounded by the population as a whole.

If you are worried about random crime that might happen from concealed carry permit holders, then you are likewise worried about random crime that might be committed by the population as a whole.

In other words, you could encounter anyone on the street - anyone from the population as a whole. And if the person you encounter happens to have a concealed carry permit, they are much less likely to victimize you violently than anyone else you might encounter.

You want to compare all law-abiding people against each other, and ignore criminals you might encounter on the street. Well of course! If you exclude the criminal element in society, you will naturally be very safe! But no one has that luxury. When you go out in the world you are surrounded by the population as a whole. Some of those people will be bad people, and some of them will be concealed carry permit holders.

And the fact is, when you encounter a CCW permit holder, compared to everyone else you might encounter in public, you can be certain that that person is much less likely to be involved in any kind of crime, let alone firearm-related crime, than anyone else you might encounter in the population as a whole. You can be certain that they have never been adjudicated mentally incompetent, they have never been involuntarily committed to a mental institution, and they have never been convicted of a disqualifying felony.