Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Your gun doesn’t make me safer [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)have said that the practice is dangerous to others, and flows from an illusion that the armed individual will protect his fellow citizens; shoot the attacker, and be a hero, a "macho"-type engaged in vigilantism and a threat to others. In the discussion at-hand, another gun-controller suggested that the only motivation for some concealed-carry folks was "selfish," and concerned only about him/herself.
So which is it? Is the concealed-carry citizen "selfish" (concerned only about himself), or is he/she a "macho" type, laboring under a grand illusion of saving the world, or at least the crowded classroom?
I subscribe to the "selfish" motivation chiefly, as carrying a weapon for self-defense is pre-eminently personal, not social policy. That it might have ramifications on social policy is unclear. But I have no illusions of "macho" superman actions.
So I am selfish, but not macho. Whew, I was worried.