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Marine With Concealed Carry Permit Saves Woman From Being Beaten to Death

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Rightwingconspirator8/16/2013 10:17:27 am PDT

re: #17 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Right people truly suck at threat assessment. Perhaps most obviously, the guy that speeds to the airport and then has a fear of flying. I don’t see any prospect of changing how the masses threat assess. I think of that as a given. The mentality is not math or statistic driven. It’s more like “Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.” The abundance of caution approach. Of course that needs to include big safety training and practice. That means lots of gun classes. The last thing we want is untrained gun owners.

Maybe it’s not wise to treat gun accidents in these classes as a common outcome. “If only he had a gun” was a very unkind and IMO unwise snark by SkipIntro.

Now what I can not reliably find is how many people buy the gun just for protection and never take it up as any sport. But I’d stipulate for discussion it’s a significant fraction. Those people need to get trained up, practice or become ex gun owners.

Then we have a great big bunch of people that have guns for other reasons, and if intruded upon at home or in defense of a family member grab a gun for defensive use. They have the benefit of repeated safe shooting and handling habits.