rightwinger
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Couldnt defend your ridiculous statement about putting a sign on your yard could you?The idea of an armed society is that the criminal has no idea whether we are armed or not. That's the beauty of it.
I was in a local blog (Topix) when our CCW laws were in consideration. An adversary of mine asked why I wanted to see such a law passed? I told him my mother lives alone, never had a drivers license in her life, and loves walking everywhere she can. He then asked if our CCW laws passed, would my elderly mother carry a gun with her? To that I replied no she wouldn't, but the criminal doesn't know that.
Mass shootings often happen in gun free zones. Why is that? Because the criminal wants to shoot as many people as possible with no resistance. Criminals are very concerned about armed citizens and with good reason. In the US, we use our guns over a million times a year for self-defense or to stop a crime. A disarmed society couldn't provide such a deterrent. That's why when more states adopted CCW laws since the mid 90's, and laws that protect the victim instead of the criminal, gun crime decreased, again, disproving your theory that more guns are the problem when in fact if anything, they are more of a solution.