Quote Originally Posted by Kittens! View Post
Next, concealed carry is for protection from government. It is used to prevent widespread arrests of armed citizens. If you think such a theory is ridiculous, then you should not support gun rights at all, because gun rights are meant to keep some power with the people, and to prevent total government control.
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Dude where are you hearing this stuff? Im a HUGE 2nd ammendment supporter, and CC is NOT for protection from the Gov. CC is for protection from criminals on the street. Do you honestly think someone will pull a gun on cops if even if they KNOW they are being wrongfully arrested? Thats just asking for trouble. The 2nd amendment was originally created to give the people power to keep the gov. from becoming a tyrannical one. Not CC.

As far as a shooter not doing anything because he sees a guy with a gun, and this is purely speculation, but realisticly, most people, including myself, would not want to open carry. Which would make the number of people with a gun very low, if any at all. So it would be no problem for an active shooter to focus on just the armed people and take them out even before they can react. Then he would continue on with the killing or unarmed people.

For example. Cops open carry, if someone is robbing a bank, the FIRST people they will take care of is the ones that are a VISIBLE threat. If there is a plain clothed officer with a hidden gun, that gives him the ability to blend in and look like a non-threat.