Self-defense or societal defense is, or should be, a weight too heavy for most to carry.

You're right. But having pointed that out, you've assumed an obligation to provide a better alternative.

Rely on the police? The police very seldom PREVENT violent crimes. They can't. They'd have to be everywhere at once. They arrive at the scene afterwards, and possibly arrest the perpetrator (if he's white, or shoot him while he's "resisting arrest" if he's black). but the victim is just as dead or crippled as if the perp had gotten away clean. Or if the victim was lucky and wasn't harmed, but just had his money taken, the money goes into the police evidence locker for a few years, and eventually, when the victim has given up on getting it back and forgotten about it, gets spent on doughnuts.

Rely on the court system? Too often, the perp is out in a few months or years and does it again. And while he's in, he's training youthful offenders, many of whom who got put in for nonviolent crimes, in how to be a real pro.

A person shouldn't carry unless he/she has good anger management and has formal training in the use of the firearm and in the legal aspects of use of deadly force in self-defense. An absolute prohibition of concealed carry results in ONLY people who DON'T have those prohibitions going armed (except for the police, who are somewhere else, giving out speeding tickets).

Forgive my cynicism. But I get sooooo sick of liberals picking on conservatives for oversimplifying the issue, while the liberals are oversimplifying it just as badly. No worse, granted. But just as badly.

P.