I live in the city RB, being a college age student, I am subject to the same situations you are. I agree that going strapped into a bar is not a good idea, that is more of a common sense thing.
The issue for me, as it is in most cases involving guns or self protection laws, why should a law abiding citizen not be able to defend his/herself by any means necessary if they are physcially being attacked. You will no doubt try to assert the verbal escalation instances and such, that is a moot point, because there is no doubt in my mind clarafication by the law stating that there has to be an immediate risk, if someone starts getting in your face and you shoot them, you are going to go to jail, I guarentee that this law won't change that. Why do you think we have degrees of murder as far as intent, felony murder, and manslaughter? This new law is not a black hole of common sense or morals.
So again I ask, if I am legally authorized to carry a firearm, and I am walking down the street strapped (concealed of course), and some thug starts beating on me, why should I not be able to fire on him? I have no idea what his intentions are, I was just walking down the steet and the guy starts stealing on me, for all I know he intends to murder me. I would beg you to find some numbers to back your assertation that innocents are already dying in droves as a result of gun violence by licensed law abiding people. The fact is that it is criminals who carry guns illegally that kill people and that are the bad shots you often here about. The only innocent deaths or shootings I have heard about in Minnesota which is a conceal and carry state, is when little girls doing their homework get mowed down by parasitic gang bangers who are trying to shoot up the house next door, or when said gang bangers try and shoot someone on a stoop or corner. I only know of one instance of violence with a person who was issued a conceal and carry permit, the fucker was drunk and he wasn't even concealing, he just straight shot some guy, I think for schluping his wife, in that case he was abiding by the law anyways.
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