31 states offer licenses for concealed weapons. That is your handgun does not have to be visible.


http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/guns/part2/gunside1.html

My brother is a life member or the NRA. His suggestion is that we should return to our Wild West heritage. Everyone strap on a firearm. If someone pulls a gun on you, you shot him or her. If your airplane is hijacked all passengers not involved in the hijacking shoot the hijacker.




>I have never seen anyone except for law enforcement wearing a side-arm in a restaurant or even out on the street. I have lived in many places here and traveled all over the U.S. and never experienced that. I live 15 minutes from a major military base and haven't seen it. We also have a law now that requires guns to be registered and also a law on concealed weapons. So if you have one and it is registered it had better be visible.
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>>Well I have seen people (in the U.S.) wearing side-arms in restaurants and such, and they seemed to grow in numbers the further south I got.
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>>But I think the real issue is that laws AGAINST guns, especially revolvers, make them far less obtainable in the first place. We don't have "guns shows" here, nor flea markets where all manner of weapons are sold.
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>>I once saw statistics (yes, they can lie) that, if memory serves, said that there were more gun deaths in the U.S. annually than all other first-world countries combined.
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>>>See this is where I think there are some misconceptions about America. I personally do not know one person who carries a gun. I only know one that owns any, and that is for hunting. And I'm in the South! As a whole, we are probably a bit more crass compared to other developed countries, but the whole cowboy thing is blown way out of proportion.
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>>>>Virtually all European countries (and Canada and lots of others) have laws AGAINST owning/carrying handguns.