Personally, I feel safer (because I AM safer) when I know that in any crowd, there are at least a few background-checked licensed individuals carrying firearms, me included. So where's my right to peaceably assemble? And why must I be subjected to humilliating groping by poorly trained and even more poorly background-checked people, which seriously detracts from my "pursuit of happiness" just so that you can "feel" safer, while outside our boarding gate, undocumented immigrants with false IDs load the baggage, stock the food and should they be so inclined, plant their bombs on our airplane?

"majority of crime is because of poverty. Remove the causes, and all gang members would rather work for a living." Well, Bernie Madoff, along with a whole lot of bankers and mortgage lenders will be relieved to hear YOU, at least, don't consider their behavior criminal.

It is not poverty, per se, that causes violent crime, or there would be more female violent offenders than male, while in fact the ratio is about 90% male to 10% female. And plenty of violent criminals have an air conditioned house with a well stocked refrigerator waiting for them when they decide to snuggle in.

Why are car keys allowed in bars in every state? Is there anything more insane? Many thousands more people are killed every year by drunk drivers than by drunken licensed firearms carriers. In fact, in the average year, I doubt if ANYBODY is killed by a drunken CCW permit holder.