>>There are plenty of people I expect to just walk into my house if the door's unlocked rather than making me come to the door.
>>In both cases, it's about relationships and community.
In fairness, to a large extent that depends where you live.
The NRA says that in states where concealed weapons are allowed, violent crime rates are comparable to or lower than in Europe. True or false? Certainly the outcome might be different if an armed intruder in a school was going up against not just kids and defenseless teachers but an unknown number of armed adults.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
