re: #316 Charles Johnson

It’s possible he might have still gone and confronted the guy without a gun, but I do think that carrying a CCW indicates that you, well, are carrying a gun around in case of violence, so that you can respond to that violence with a gun. I really don’t think that’s a stretch. I know that what is recommended by the cops is for people to stay the hell away, and not try to be heros but CCW’s are granted with some pretty lax standards in some states, like in Florida where just doing a hunter safety training course is enough to get one. I don’t think in hunter safety they spend much time covering this sort of thing.

I do think that anyone carrying a gun should at least be trained as to what the cops would prefer them to do in the situation, which I’m pretty damn sure is not confront the person.