Reply #47: Wild West was safer...........

[one-eyed fat man]

than the east side of Cleveland!............or a lot of other present day cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit or the nation's Capitol

The Washington Post whimpered that Washington DC "is not Dodge City in the 1800s", and thus should be allowed to continue its total handgun ban.

* from 1876 until 1885, Dodge City had 15 homicides.
* Dodge City's worst year for murder was 1878, when 5 people were murdered.
* Washington DC had 169 homicides in 2006.

Every time a Concealed Carry law has been passed in the past 20 years there have been shrill cries of "Dodge City...OK Corral......Wild West shootouts...........every fender bender..........there will be BLOOD IN THE STREETS!!!!!"

Are your feet wet yet? You tripping over corpses in your driveway? Thugs are still doing brutish things, mostly to each other. Just very occasionally do they run onto an uncooperative victim who takes a 'bite out of crime' by shooting back. Just enough to lower the rate of assault and directly confrontational crimes by a small but measurable amount. But your irrational fear of the oft-predicted 'blood-bath' that will come with law-abiding citizens carrying guns for their defense has yet to materialize.

So the answer is, YOU don't need a gun with concealed carry. You don't have to have one, if the thug wondering "What's in your wallet?" opts to pass because he's not sure which one of us he is casing.