Reply #13: Nobody's arguing that it is

[Euromutt]

Any more than anyone's arguing a driver's license confers permission to operate a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol.

The point is, rather, that this is a very small, and not very representative sample, of CCW permit holders. In how many metropolitan counties in "shall issue" states were there not multiple incidents of this sort over the past weekend, in spite of possibly comparable numbers of CCW holders operating motor vehicles? Suggesting that this sort of behavior is typical of CCW permit holders is an example of the "Texas sharpshooter fallacy" (http://fallacyfiles.org/texsharp.html). It's as valid--and this is TheWraith's point--argue that, say, two dozen DUIs occurring in a single county in a single weekend is evidence that licensed drivers as a group can't be trusted.