I guess you didn't hear the story about what happened at the Ft Lauderdale airport a few weeks ago.

It's not that I'm worried about not having my gun with me. It's that I'm worried about not having it with me in target rich environments where only bad guys will have guns.

Putting up a sign banning guns is telling people who want to commit heinous acts with guns that they can get away with it without any resistance.

I have no problem not having a gun IF the government or the place that I'm at can GUARANTEE that NO ONE ELSE will have a gun. So far I have yet to see that happen.

As long as there is a chance that bad guys will have guns, and so called gun free zones increase that chance, then I feel that I have a right to have my gun with me.

It's not that a gun will guarantee anything and it certainly won't guarantee that bad things won't happen. But it does give me a fighting chance.

The victims in the Ft Lauderdale had zero chance. If there had been responsible law abiding citizens there with guns the shooter may have been stopped before more damage was done. Might some people have shot the wrong person? Sure, but those people might have been shot anyway.


What we know is that if bad guys know that there are other people carrying guns, they are much less likely to try something. If they do try something there is a greater likelihood that they will be stopped sooner than if no other guns are present.

One instance has been presented in this thread of people with illegal guns going wrong. There are thousands of instances where armed citizens have prevented violence and we don't know how many times a violent act has been averted because the perpetrator was afraid that there might be armed citizens in the area.