State of shock, of course they are because there is little gun crime in Texas because gun owners have seen to that. I love these stories. How about printing stories where an armed citizen has prevented mass shootings. It far outweighs the bad.
Can we not use the same analogy as a thief scouring properties to steel from. What's he/she going to choose. The easy pickings, none secure homes or risk getting caught or slowed down by a well secured property. I'd like to think that my gun, assuming the criminal knows I'm armed because the state allows will fuck off elsewhere! And guess what, they usually do!
Dr. John Lott, a senior research scholar at Yale University Law School in a study with the University of Chicago, discovered that guns are used five times as often to
prevent as to commit crimes.
Armed Citizens Can Help Prevent Crimes - Los Angeles Times
Do legally-armed citizens prevent crime?
Cato Institute study says armed citizens prevent thousands of crimes - JSOnline
Armed Citizen | NRA Publications and Magazines
But of course with the new Obama (communist) administration, and those that follow, will never admit to the truth. But they'll do their best to find links provided by the government that discredit such links above.
The anti-gun campaigners are often those that have also lost members of a family due to a gun related incident. They believe if guns were illegal, their loved one will still be here. They are completed blinded by their own emotions and the bigger picture.
I wonder how many, god forbid should ever be in a situation where a criminal is in their house, pointing a gun at the family, for that moment wished they were armed?