"The point is, they HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE! Unarmed, they have NO CHANCE!"

piffle...the point is, **unless** you are trained AND have ready access to a weapon and don't have one aimed at you, you are FAR better off just cooperationg! What is this 'defender' bit? Are you in the Alamo, expecting an attack? 99.9% of us are just minding our own business.

'Sometimes' a shopkeeper who KNOWS he could be robbed will gain an advantage, and sometimes a in a rural setting, an intruder on your property can be dissuaded IF you know soon enough...but even folks who DO know guns are usually not prepared at a moments notice to react to someone who actually has a weapon in hand.

I can see the sane, legitimate uses of firearms, but I shudder at the idea of an armed populace carrying guns around 'just to be safe'...they won't be.