Plane is right on target yet again.
You see xo, you have it so bassackwards, its quite mystifying. Good gun nuts like me want to avoid confrontation. The LAST thing we want to do is to pull out our roscoes, jump behind a chevy, and start plugging every bad guy we see. It's neither a goal nor function of us good law abiding gun nuts. Nor do we walk down the middle of the street in full bravado, just itching for someone to mess with us, knowing we're packing. We're simply prepared, and even then, nothing can prepare you for such an attack. But at least, we'd have a fighting chance
What we do function as, is to act as a deterrent to bad gun nuts....you know, those that would shoot us in the back of the head, or gun down some innocent youg girl simply walking with her dad in San Francisco. Smart criminals are the ones who are going to avoid the areas we frequent and legally cleared to carry, and instead focus their bad gun nut wrath on those areas that the laws have made so restrictive to law abiding citizens, that its a good bet they can attack without fear of immediate retaliation.
As I've pointed out many a time, I've had my CCW now for over 2 decades, and never once have I had to pull my weapon or even brandish it. But if me, my family, or any loved ones near me were to find outselves under some rare attack, by some bad gun nut, my "uselessness" will be demonstrated as nothing of the sort
