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Where’s the “lots”? By my count, of the many people who have responded to the thread, only three have objected to guns inside their homes. Also, none of them have said that your guns should be wrested from your hands by the state, just that they don’t want the guns in their house and will take minimal steps (ordering from non-gun-carrying deliverers) if that will make guns in their homes less likely. That’s hardly “hysteria.”
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Sorry, you’re right, “hysteria” is overboard. I generalized because I’ve dealt with people who really do become hysterical at the idea of being near someone armed (except of course if it’s some sort of government agent, they always know what’s best). I should say “irrational fear” perhaps.
People drive on freeways or walk across streets with traffic surrounded by people in two ton death machines and accept it as normal. I would say that on average, a CCW holder is probably much safer and well trained with his lethal machine than a soccer mom in a suburban. Why aren’t those same people scared of driving? In a lot of cases, it’s they realize because even though someone may harm you from stupidity or an accident, the other drivers generally mean you no harm. But they don’t think the same of the average law abiding citizen with a CCW… they assume that being armed comes with the intent to do evil, that having a gun makes you a bad guy.
I did overreact in my initial statements, though - I transposed some of my irritation at the gun-fearing public at large onto particular posters in this thread.