How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market

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56. I didn't interview them any more than you've interviewed Bloomberg.

But here ya go anyway:

If someone carries weapons concealed, he must really be looking for or expecting trouble instead of avoiding it (whether they were carried legally or not).
Jim Grover, "Don't Be a Victim!," Guns & Ammo, July 1992, 21

...the license to carry concealed, deadly weapons in public is not a right but a privilege. To be worthy of this privilege, one must be both discreet and competent with the weapon. The gun-carrying man who lacks either attribute is a walking time bomb.
Massad F. Ayoob, In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection (Massad F. and Dorothy A. Ayoob, 1980), 81.

e aware that when you start carrying a gun, your personality may change. You may become more confident but also more aggressive. You may go to places that you would not have gone before simply because you are armed. You may think you are invincible, but you're not. . . . "most police officers and probably civilians who carry guns fantasize at some time or other about winning a gunfight.”
Chris Bird, The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense (San Antonio: Privateer Publications, 1998)

"Civilians who buy guns for street defense tend to think that their very possession will alleviate the dangers," and may thus unwisely stroll into situations where it may later appear "he was looking for trouble."
Massad F. Ayoob, In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection (Massad F. and Dorothy A. Ayoob, 1980)