Pastor's Daughter Accidentally Shot at Church Dies

[AtheistCrusader]

117. I'm not going to flame you.

Your choice for your mode of risk management is your own business, not mine. If you are comfortable, and confident, by all means.

I have had no choice but to live in places where very bad things can and do happen. I carry, because human life is very precious to me. Even that of total strangers. To me, a firearm is nothing but a tool, like my CPR mask. I could use it negligently, or I could use it to protect human life.

Some people choose negligence. Some people choose predatory mistreatment of other people. Best defense against the latter, is armed people with a desire to protect human life.

The negligence piece is something we are ever vigilant for, and the accidental firearm death rate shows it, having trended down from thousands per year in the 50's, to ~500 per year now. Certainly something to keep working on, as I would love to see that number a big fat zero, but now, it is statistically negligable. Compared to the hundreds of thousands that die accidentally every year from various sources, and the distribution of accidental deaths among those sources, we have bigger fish to fry.