I think that most people who carry any sort of concealed weapon are not trained to use it properly (gun, knife, whatever), so it's sort of pointless to do so in the first place. Maybe I am wrong.
I'd never carry a gun because I don't need to. The only time I'd ever shoot one, it would be a rifle, and it would be while hunting. Even then, I'd rather try to do it with a bow and arrow before I tried rifle hunting (seems cooler to take down a huge animal with nothing more than a "stick and a string")...
I find it funny that the roots of the 'right to bear arms' was, in my understanding, to allow people to protect themselves from seizure of personal property or liberty from a government gone wild. Nowadays, I figure people can do a pretty effective job of eliminating a government in the US just by voting... look how well that is working out, though.
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