"Perhaps, but only with proper training. Otherwise the gun user, no matter what their intentions may be, is just as likely to inadvertently hit innocents as the bad guy/s. That's also ignoring gun users who, frankly, are way too trigger happy and may escalate to gun usage when the situation doesn't call for it (although this case is probably more an example of criminal excessive use of force as opposed to simply not being a good shot in a stressful situation)."
Yes you said that. Those of us who are licensed to carry our firearms take regular training seriously and it becomes a pastime. We shoot stationary targets. We seek out activities in which we must move and shoot. Then we take more training. The longer we do it, the more cautious we are, having blown it many times in practice. We lock the guns up when we get home. There will be criminals and crazies. Most people meet their end in the middle of the bell curve by illness or traffic fatality rather than on the outliers of taking a stray round at the all night drive through...my point being that there is little you can do to insulate from random chance and you will never extract every unregistered gun from every unsavory owner.
Which is why the rest of us who want them must be allowed to have them.
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