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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]Orrex
(63,172 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 21, 2015, 08:42 PM - Edit history (1)
For most people, I submit that their fear is 99% baseless, insofar as they either haven't been attacked at all, or they've been attacked under circumstances that wouldn't have been mitigated had they been carrying a gun in the first place.
Of course, you posit a chicken-or-egg conundrum: would the victim in this case have been attacked if he hadn't been armed? Nothing in the story suggests that he would have been. It's not even entirely clear that he was attacked because he's black, though that appears to be the assumption (which, honestly, I am inclined to share).
Was the victim carrying a gun because he feared he'd be attacked if he were unarmed? Good thing he was carrying, then.