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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Agree! We should eventually have less crime because the robbers don’t know if you have a gun and they don’t want to be surprised. I suggest the OP move to Chicago where they have the strictest gun laws and we all know the shootings that go on there every day. Chicago isn’t the only city that’s bad, NYC, LA, SF and many others that have strict gun laws that protect the criminals and screw the law abiding citizen
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Yep.
Proof of that was some years back when permit-to-carry went into effect in Minnesota. Minnesota is super-restrictive in a lot of ways but surprisingly not when it comes to carrying firearms. You can open carry in that state if you have a permit and some did, though my personal opinion is that the ONLY person who needs to know if I am carrying or not is me.
Anyway, there were all the usual doleful predictions about what horrible things were going to be happening once permit-to-carry went into effect. The anti - 2nd. Amendment folks spared no effort in trying to convince other Minnesotans that the street departments of the various Minnesota cities were going to be sweeping up dead bodies on a routine basis every morning. Didn't happen, of course. But one thing that DID happen was that there were a lot of businesses that had signs prominently posted in their windows "Guns Not Allowed On These Premises". They came down right quick when it became apparent that those were the businesses being targeted by the criminals!
Bad guys don't like their victims shooting back.