Are you now considering concealed carry?

[fried eggs]

The right wing, tea party types are heavily armed and trigger happy. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. I live in a sane state, thank God

We have strong gun laws, and a serious lack of crazy and paranoia.

No guns for me.

[premium]

4. I live in a very red town in Nevada,

and I've never felt any hatred or danger to my well being, most of my friends are RWingers, we just don't talk politics.

[cthulu2016]

2. And get yourself or your family members killed. Great advice.

Nothing has happened today to make guns a good idea.

If you get a gun the likeliest victim will be yourself or a family member.

Isn't your violent empowerment fantasy exactly the same as the tea-baggers?

[blogslut]

3. no

[otohara]

5. I Stay Home A Lot

but I'm terrified for my son - who is biracial and lives in NC where he has seen men with assault rifles walking around.
Fuck

[KarenS]

6. I've been really sarcastic about it lately.

But I think some sensible gun laws might come back if

Women started carrying guns.
Liberals started carrying guns.
People of color started carrying guns.

Trust me when I say, I'm really not stable enough to own one.

[Jenoch]

8. Women, liberals, and people of color

DO legally carry concealed weapons.

[KarenS]

14. Let me clarify,,,,

If lots of women, liberals and people of color began carrying weapons and flaunting them like the good ol boy Libertarians here in Arizona do,,,, then some laws would probably be changed,,,,

Let me repeat also that I am being sarcastic.
I would never own a gun let alone carry one.

I'm just very angry right now.

[Jenoch]

18. I understand your

anger and frustration. I believe Zimmerman should not have done what he did, he should not have been armed as a neighborhood watch member.

Many of our gun laws were passed and kept for years in order to keep blacks (freed slaves in the 19th century) from being able to legally purchase and own guns.

[frazzled]

9. Now more opposed than ever

Guns are the bane of our society.

[Hoyt]

10. NO! But bigots and gun nuts will be buying another gun to celebrate with.

[Nye Bevan]

11. No. Guns scare the shit out of me and I will never touch one.

(Possibly lacking in machismo a little........ but then again, there is nothing that I need to "overcompensate" for)

[etherealtruth]

12. To increase the likelihood of me or my loved ones being shot

I think not

[Ed Suspicious]

13. Not a chance. There is a far greater chance

of tragedy for my family from the barrel my own gun than an aggressive stranger, but that just might be my white privilege talking.

[Agschmid]

15. Nope, I am considering doing EVERYTHING I can to get guns... off our streets.

[SheilaT]

16. No. What a foolish question.

[ileus]

17. I recommend the LCP.

[2ndAmForComputers]

19. Only if there were no people who depend on me and I had nothing to lose.

[Quixote1818]

20. I carry pepper spray most of the time.

I don't want to be put in the position to kill someone. I just want to lower their chances of killing or hurting me.

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. I've been a liberal for as long as I can remember...

...and a CCW permit holder since the early 90's.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

22. I'm not too worried where I live,

But if I lived in Whitetrashistan and leaving were not an option I would sure be considering it.

My general attitude about guns from having spent time in the third world is when you carry a gun you're a combatant. I don't really see the CCW freaks any differently than the morons swaggering around a third world high street with their AK-47.

Although I would be interested in taking a CCW class in the deep south, just out of morbid curiosity as I have heard some of these classes are basically step-by-step instructions on how to get away with murder.

[Mojorabbit]

23. I live fifteen minutes from Sanford

and I am a woman and a gun owner but the only time my guns leave the house is when I go to the range. I don't cc.

[rrneck]

24. Nah. nt

[struggle4progress]

25. Nah. I figure most people aren't cowardly enough to shoot me if I'm unarmed

There are some exceptionally gutless exceptions, I suppose

[NickB79]

26. I've actually had to use a gun in self-defense before

And fuck no, I'm not considering concealed-carry. In fact, every one of my guns stays locked up, unloaded, in a safe, WITH trigger locks on them to boot.