Well being a cop for as long as I have (28 years +) I think its funny to watch peoples reaction when they ask me what I think of private citizens owning firearms, and I tell them that I think everyone who wants to and is capable should be able to carry one if they want. I know that sounds funny coming from a cop, but if more people properly carried firearms, I truly think violent crime would decrease.

The reasoning behind that is that criminals would know that the chances of their victim being armed and able to defend themselves is much higher in a society that carries than one that does not.

Take this to the question I asked the other day about the bystanders that watched a man beat a child to death and did not stop him. A armed/ trained/ licensed gun carrier could have legally stopped that crime. In Salt Lake city a man walks into a mall and starts shooting people. A man with a concealed firearm hears the shots and responds to the scene, his wife calls 911 to tell them what is happening and describes her husband in detail so police know he is not the shooter. The firearm carrier engages and shoots the shooter and police arrive and working with him, kill the mall shooter. In this case the concealed carrier of a firearm was a off duty police officer at dinner with his dispatcher wife, but it could well have been a civilian.

Criminals like to prey on weak, defenseless victims, no criminal wants to try and attack or otherwise victimize a armed citizen. They know they are likely to die in the attempt and they go elsewhere.

So the Supreme Courts decision is one that just confirms the idea that our founding fathers understood that the citizens not only should have the right to own firearms, but that they may actually need them, not only from the random criminal, but also to protect themselves from a tyrannical government run amok.

I am glad the decided the way they did, and I hope that many more of these firearms bans are removed and more citizens will take this opportunity to get some training in defending themselves and their families and carry concealed properly handled firearms.

You can walk out your door today and be defenseless against an attacker, or you can walk out the door today and know you are able to defend yourself and your family if needed. The second way is a great feeling of safety and security.

Be safe everyone...