re: #616 Gus

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To a point. I think it does prevent many criminals, but not whackos. There is something about the mindset I’ve never been able to articulate. People I know who have grown up with guns (like me) or are shooters—actually aren’t victims of crimes. I think it’s a lot like the victims of abusers can always be picked-out of a crowd (or at a bar) by abusers. A confidence thing? a sense that “this person will fight back” or “isn’t an easy mark”. I don’t know.

It’s an inner psychological thing.

I’m always returning to the women I know who are so fearful of guns they won’t even talk about them. I really worry that some idiot will try to steal their car or rape them with a painted over child’s toy gun and they will submit, so fearful they won’t even try to recognize the weapon the person is using.