Reply #28: Your request is somewhat problematic

[Euromutt]

Instead of demanding that I concede that my concerns are groundless based on statistics and assumptions, it would seem that gun proponents of public carry have at least a cursory responsibility to both convince me that I am being overly paranoid, and to at least entertain certain concessions (to be determined) to reduce my anxiety.

There's a maxim that "you can't reason someone out of a position he didn't reason himself into." You acknowledge yourself that your position is based on emotion (anxiety) and irrational (paranoia). You refuse to be swayed by empirical evidence.

So at this point I have to ask, why on Earth should it someone else's responsibility to allay your concerns, when your position is, by your admission, unreasonable and not amenable to reason? Why should anyone be reasonably expected to make concessions to, and generally defer, to your irrational concerns?