Plymouth State University in New Hampshire - Pro-Gun Demonstration

[Straw Man]

43. Interpreting it creates the law we live under.

[div class = excerpt]We are expressing our own views here, not the views of SCOTUS.
Their views become the law of the land. Your views are ... your views.

[div class = excerpt]However, I support an individual's right to keep arms for personal use and for self defense.
I see you choose to leave the "and bear" part out of it. Duly noted.

[div class = excerpt]That is a long way from supporting the indiscriminate toting of concealed weapons in every day situations, not to mention the promoting of such behavior in the name of civil rights.
Please define "indiscriminate." Again, you seem to be laboring under the delusion that there is a magical condition called an "everyday situation" that precludes any possibility of violent assault. I'm not "promoting" any behavior -- merely affirming a right that is guaranteed to me by the Constitution. You are under no obligation to exercise that right if you should choose not to.

[div class = excerpt]I accept that there are many people who justifiably feel the need to carry a weapon in their daily lives, based on the realities of the environment they live in and particular occupational hazards.
The notion that violent crime happens only in predictable places and at predictable times is a similar delusion.

[div class = excerpt]My common sense tells me when I may be more likely to expect a violent assault. Obviously there are no guarantees, but there are few guarantees in anyone's life, armed or not.
No, there are no guarantees, and I am baffled by your insistence that the degree to which the carrying of firearms is a social ill is somehow inversely proportional to need. If I carry a firearm but never have the need to use it, surely no harm has been done.

[div class = excerpt]I do not post compulsively and I have no fear of firearms, unless they are pointed at me. Let's try to keep the conversation civil.
You're the one who suggested that a certain lifestyle choice of myself and many others on this forum is "compulsive" and "irrational" and constitutes "a disorder." And you're lecturing me on civility?

[div class = excerpt]I'm not trying to take your, or anyone's guns away.
No, you'd just like to be the arbiter of where and when I should carry one.

[div class = excerpt]I'm trying to get a grasp on what is happening to our society and whether handgun proliferation and concealed carry is good or bad for society as a whole, and whether it will eventually lead to a curbing of our rights.
What exactly is handgun "proliferation" to you? A raw number of guns? A percentage of the population that carries? A crime statistic? I see it as a buzzword whose sole purpose is to portray handguns as a social evil. So this is just an intellectual endeavor for you? And what have you discovered, beyond the fact that gun owners object to being called irrational, compulsive, and emotionally disturbed?

I see you're back to the "stop exercising those rights or they will be taken away from you" meme. Sigh...