Shopper guilty in tackling of man with gun at Walmart

[Shamash]

103. If 99.9% of gun-owners pose no threat to you, why would you need a gun in the first place?

First, some of them (like myself) are hunters, a category of gun owners which you were apparently unaware of the existence of. They may not be doing concealed carry, but they are gun owners, a group which as a whole you seem to have a problem with. Though to be fair, your main problem seems to be coming up with a rational reason to have a problem with them. If you eventually work your way through that, then you can expand on it and explain how those reasons are liberal ones.

Second, some of them are folks like Diane Feinstein, who had a concealed carry permit for a while because she was concerned about threats on her life. You know, since some people are smaller and weaker than others yet still cling to the regressive notion that they should have a right to an adequate level of self-defense against an attacker who is more powerful by benefit of strength or superior numbers, and feels that self-defense technologies which have YouTube videos of people ignoring them (pepper spray and tasers) are just not up to the task.

Third, please explain why your determination of "need" is sufficient grounds to prevent me from owning or doing something. I hear conservatives saying that homosexuals do not "need" to get married, or that no woman "needs" to have an abortion. Drunk driving kills a lot of people. Does anyone "need" to consume an alcoholic beverage? Or does your logic not apply when other people use it? (aka the "guns are ‘different’, therefore I can be an asshat" defense).

Fourth, about your odds. The CDC says that the number of defensive guns uses per year is more than the number of violent criminal assaults. And that the average outcome for the person using the gun is better than the outcome for any other defensive strategy.

Last, about 1 in 20 adults in the United States has a concealed carry permit. Are you living in fear of them on a daily basis? Because they are there. They're all around you. All the time. Which brings us back to the subject line of my comment. I'm not worried about that 99.9% of gun owners. I'm less likely to be victimized by one of them than by the rest of the population.

edit: I see from another comment that you are not in the US. How would you feel about moving to Vermont, a state with unlimited concealed carry, a murder rate about that of the UK and lower rape, assault and robbery rates than the UK?