>>>Are you more likely to commit a crime in a place where you know someone is packing a gun or some where you know no one is?
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>>I think when you're committing a shooting spree because you're mentally ill, it really doesn't matter.
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>That's a good reason to have a gun handy at all time.
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>Not all gun tote'n thugs are mentally ill. They're just bad people.

As I said elsewhere, you're assuming the risk of running into a "gun tote'n thug" is greater than the other risks of keeping a gun at the ready. I would argue that for the vast majority of Americans, that just isn't so.

Tamar