Tsing, you may feel that the world would be safer without guns, but as i recall you are an accomplished martial artist. A woman or elderly person needs an equalizer.
RTC laws are a good way to test the proposition that more guns carried by lawful owners results in less gun violence. The establishment of RTC in a place creates an opportunity to see if any more or less violence is visible in that place in the noise of "routine" gun violence.
Anti-gun zealots predicted an orgy of shootings prompted by minor incidents like parking space disputes if concealed carry was authorized. It didn't happen. In fact, as the Lott study proved, crime went down. Proving cause and effect is always tricky. The one thing we can say for sure is that CCW holders have been involved in far less criminal incidents than the anti-gun crowd forecast. Many people get a CCW just to avoid potential hassles with the police when transporting firearms, eg to the range.
You're talking about on the individual level. In Ricter's defense, he is speaking in general terms, and in my opinion, he is correct (on that thought). If you removed all the guns in the world, there would be less violence overall. But since that's fantasy land, it's irrelevant.
Only if the place you are establishing it in already has violence. A courtroom is a stupid example since you can't get any lower than no violence at all. Chicago, on the other hand, is a good example. RTC was illegal there, wasn't it?
You don't need a CCW for the range as long as you transport your firearm correctly. I believe people go through the hassle of getting a CCW because they want the gun on their person - nothing to do with ranges.
Small point, but I'm not arguing a courtroom has zero violence, only that it has (close to) zero gun violence. Anyway, I'll admit it's too extreme an example to make the point. The argument by some is that more guns around results in less gun violence. Another argument is that fewer guns around results in less gun violence. Looking at other nations with, per capita, non-zero amounts of guns around, and comparing their gun violence rate to ours, could help answer the question of which assertion is more true.
That's not the argument being made. It's more legally owned guns results in less gun violence. Also dependent on whether we're talking about legal or illegally owned guns. A police station where everyone owns a gun is a very safe place. But that's the other end of the extreme from the courtroom analogy. It could if they had similar laws regarding concealed carry, AND if they had similar problems with the amount of illegal firearms already in the country. To my knowledge, there is no such example.
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