Pic Of The Moment: Gun Group Simulates Paris Attack, Adds "Good Guy With Gun," Nothing Changes

[JohnnyRingo]

52. I guess there's a chance that not one person was carrying there.

But it is a very slim chance in Colorado where only cowboy hats outnumber pistols, and playing the odds isn't a claim of telepathic skills.

Common sense dictates that a good number of armed citizens left their gun holstered and ran the other way that fateful day. Given how firing on the gunman would likely have made them the next target, it was probably wise, but saying CCW laws makes the public safer is a gross exaggeration of fact.

For the record, I'm not an anti gun advocate. I personally own a number of Colts, both single action army and semi-auto, that I treasure and enjoy using. I don't carry in public, but I feel I have no reason to, and at 60 years old, it appears I've been correct in that assumption.

I have friends who do carry however, including one who won't mow the lawn without his concealed .380 (not kidding), but they aren't the armed heroes they like to visualize themselves as either. Instead I just see them as insecure followers who jumped on a passing bandwagon. Most of them didn't even buy a gun until the CCW law passed here in Ohio and would probably just piss themselves if faced with a shooting situation.