The event was publicized. I forget the actual figures but it was reported that rape and muggings dropped by approximately seventy-percent, overnight. So did other crimes such as burglary.

An ex-con, interviewed by the press, said that it would be foolish to mug somebody who might be armed.

How quickly we tend to forget the positive side of allowing people to protect themselves. The press seldom presents figures for the number of lives saved because of citizens who were armed, but they jump on the tragic cases highlighted in Maryland and demand that we all be disarmed, as though it would prevent future similar tragedies.

I don’t know the statistics for deaths by automobile but I would guess that far more people die in car crashes each year than by guns. Does anyone suggest that we rid the public of cars, then? Let’s face it, they are just as lethal as a gun, and people handle them very carelessly. If somebody was yacking on a cell phone and waving a loaded gun around, it would get a lot of attention but do the same thing with a car and they get away with it.

Police carry guns but they are not to protect the public; they are for self-defense. So why not us? The ‘bed-wetters’ at the Sun need to stop whining and consider ALL the facts before they rush to judgment.