Reply #16

Don't be modest, you do excel at it according to many of your post here. You may not have said so in those words, but what you've said adds up to that conclusion, at least to me.

Bringing a gun to the party is only "far more likely to create a dire situation than not" if the person bringing the gun has issues that go far beyond guns. Guns don't force people to create problems. Have you read GSC's posts on the Texas murder rates for CCW permittees? If guns were "far more likely to create a dire situation than not" I would expect the numbers to be very different.

As for putting people at risk to save your own life, I think you would do so in a heartbeat. Let's say you were bleeding out due to an accident but could drive before you lost consciousness. Would you drive to a nearby hospital at faster than posted speed limits, ignoring stop signs and light if you could see your way clear to do so, or would you quietly pull over and bleed out in order not to place the lives of others in any danger?

If you were being chased by a gang of knife wielding youths, would you run through a crowd to escape or would you allow them to kill you to avoid the possibility that a collision with a walking person could hurt or even kill them?

You overestimate the risk of carrying guns, I think. A very tiny percentage of CCW permitees kill or even wound anyone.