'People who carry weapons feel less vulnerable and are likely to put themselves in bad situations.'
WTF?!?
Anyone else enraged by this comment from someone sworn to protect and serve? Should we just continue to be unarmed, scared and hopeful that nothing happens and if it does there's an officer of the law nearby if/when it does.
Quite the opposite. When I started carrying I now go out of my way to avoid any and all types of confrontation. I don't go to bars anymore and used to go all the time. I'm more aware of my surroundings and what could be a bad situation because I don't want to have to shoot anyone. I think that the responsibility that comes with carrying a firearm tends to make people MORE careful and NOT less careful.
I was just irked by this line from the guy with the badge because it supports the thoughts of the tree huggers watching this thinking that arming yourself to protect yourself is wrong. There's not a damn thing wrong with what these kids are doing (aside from needing a quality holster and some more safety training) and good for them because they're taking a stance against crime and letting criminals know that their thievery will be met with deadly force as it should. They don't care about laws but they do care about pain and death to some extent and if they don't then we won't miss them anyway.