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If you were armed too they probably would think twice.
I really doubt the narrative that someone who would pull out a gun over trash would spare the time to think twice.
I lived out in Berlin where basically nobody except the police and the (really) bad guys are armed. Sure, there's burglary, but much more likely was bicycle theft... I had three stolen in one calendar year. To be honest, I was more comfortable that none of my a-hole neighbors were armed, because they would have pulled a gun on you for leaving out the rubbish an hour too early or talking to loudly after 8pm.
Pointing a gun at someone is generally a crime in the US. No need for the hyperbole around gun ownership and people's behavior
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2018/09/21/you-pull...
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/04/three-charge...
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/lake-county-man-shot-kille...
https://www.waaytv.com/news/update-man-shot-accidentally-in-...
Etc.
I'm a bit surprised, I would have guessed publishing permit holder locations would have lead to organized and targeted attempts to monitor and steal guns from the households listed. (In the same sort of way I'd expect people to smash and grab a truck with an NRA sticker to maybe find a gun in the glove box.) Edit: Would it be different if the publication didn't bin by zip code?
I lived out in Berlin where basically nobody except the police and the (really) bad guys are armed. Sure, there's burglary, but much more likely was bicycle theft... I had three stolen in one calendar year. To be honest, I was more comfortable that none of my a-hole neighbors were armed, because they would have pulled a gun on you for leaving out the rubbish an hour too early or talking to loudly after 8pm.
Pointing a gun at someone is generally a crime in the US. No need for the hyperbole around gun ownership and people's behavior
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If you were armed too they probably would think twice.
That sort of thinking directly brought about WW1 as well as the Cuban missile crisis. If everyone was armed then society's short-fused lunatics are the ones most likely to misjudge a situation and start shooting first over something trivial. Goes a long way to explaining most shootings by the police too.
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Pointing a gun at someone is generally a crime in the US. No need for the hyperbole around gun ownership and people's behavior
Unholstering it and holding it down at your waist is still very threatening. And while it's not common, it definitely happens here in the US.
We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized.
So to reduce my chances of house robbery just get a gun permit. You don't even need to own a gun and all the hazards that come with it.
Or if you're looking where to live, move to a zipcode with fewer gun permits so you can worry less about a stray round coming from a neighbor's house.
I lived out in Berlin where basically nobody except the police and the (really) bad guys are armed. Sure, there's burglary, but much more likely was bicycle theft... I had three stolen in one calendar year. To be honest, I was more comfortable that none of my a-hole neighbors were armed, because they would have pulled a gun on you for leaving out the rubbish an hour too early or talking to loudly after 8pm.
Edit: If I’m somehow wrong I respectfully ask that you please correct me.
https://www.tn.gov/safety/tnhp/handgun/eligibilityrequiremen...