Yes, I am. You wrote:FBM wrote:You're not even reading what I'm writing.Seth wrote:No, you're AVOIDING problems by carrying a gun. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that crime only happens in East Knoxville, which is wrong to begin with. You also fail to understand that merely carrying a concealed weapon doesn't mean you will ever have to use it, or will ever want to. But it's just like fire insurance or a fire extinguisher, you have that because there's an unlikely chance your house will burn down or your car will catch on fire, but the consequences of that happening, no matter how remote, are so significant that it's a reasonable assessment of risk to carry insurance and have an extinguisher.
A concealed handgun is absolutely no different. I'm very, very unlikely to get into trouble where my gun will be needed, partly BECAUSE I carry a gun and therefore pay closer attention to my tactical situation than most people and therefore tend to avoid dicey situations before they get out of control, but I carry it anyway, and have needed it on several occasions, which vindicates my decision to be prepared.
My point is that crime is not restricted to East Knoxville or Austin East, and that it occurs in North Knoxville too. Also, people who live in North Knoxville "need" to carry all the time because they never know when they might need to venture to East Knoxville.What do you think my point was? If you're in a place like North Knoxville and still carry a gun as if you were on the East Side, you've got problems. But if you live in North Knoxville need to go to somewhere like Austin East, it makes perfect sense to pack. What's the difficulty?
Carrying a gun is never a "problem." The only problem is when and if you MISUSE that gun. Trying to say that North Knoxvillians don't need to carry guns "as if you were on the East side" is ignoring the realities of life and it's making a ridiculous assumption that you, or government is qualified to determine what someone's "need" to carry is based merely on where they happen to own a home.
As we saw from the Martin/Zimmerman incident, criminals come to gated communities too.
I live in a very peaceful small community that's had one murder in the last 50 years, but that doesn't mean I don't "need" to carry my gun.