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i find this all a little scary. I have never considered carrying a gun. I live in Australia and i imagine that gun crime/deaths against population would be far less than some places in the US. Although the only proof i have of this is bowling for columbine, but i don't know how far from the truth that documentary was?
It seems to me that the large reason ofr carrying the gun is fear. Is that right? you're scared something bad will happen to you, so you carry a gun to hopefully protect yourself. That is fear, which isn't neccesaryily a bad thing, it could also be replaced with caution, which has a more comforting or reasonable conatation to it.
Anyway, i guess i am "lucky" to not feel so scared or worried, such that i need a gun to help reassure myself.
Finally, i don't mean to sound too silly, but i don't fully agree with this "It is much better to have a weapon and not need it than to need it and not have it". Its true to an extent, but i guess the same thing could be said that i need to have a helmet on all the time, in case a brick falls on my head, cause it'll be better that i have the helmet and not need it, than to not have the helmet and have a birck fall on my head. Just basically, i guess i am a little naive having never been to america and not knowing too much about the amount of crime and such, but its hard for me to imagine a whole lot of people needing to draw a gun often.
i just think, maybe all this fear, may start to become counterproductive to the way we live our lives in hopefully a free society.
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