Thread drift- I remember a commercial flight out of Belgium about 40 years ago. Several passengers carried rifles and shotguns on board, and some compared their purchases (I presume Brownings, they were all new) in flight. Times have changed.

Where I grew up (New Mexico-Colorado) young people were taught how to handle firearms by their parents. The object was to prevent hunting accidents and to kill game cleanly; there was almost no worry about needing firearms to ward off felons. Handguns were not visible except in the hands of law officers, although paw's old pistol was carefully preserved, and demonstrated to show how far off target one would be without a great deal of practice. Times have changed.

I don't like the concealed carry laws. It seems to me that you are giving the criminal element the same right to carry, and in spite of clauses against convicted felons carrying, I can see loopholes. Moreover, unless training and mental checks (not perfunctory) go along with granting the license, accidental deaths are bound to go up.

The old way, the gun in sight, in some ways seems preferable.