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The school shooting in Texas is more surprising to me now that I live in Austin; the amount of people who concealed carry here is really high, and I'd assume small-town Texas would have an even higher %. I'm surprised nobody seemed to be carrying at the school!

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A good chance to revisit your priors in my opinion. Why assume concealed carry makes you safe?

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I assume it makes you safer, because carrying a gun increases your ability to kill someone, which increases the chance you might survive if someone is trying to kill you. I feel this acutely as someone who gets a lot of death threats and stalkers.

9:35 PM · May 24, 2022

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Sorry I should have specified safe from random mass shootings!

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Have you ever read about mass shootings? Lots of the minute-by-minute descriptions seem like they have tons of opportunities for defense if you had a gun. Not all moments are opportunities, but some are!

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I think it changes the math way, way less then you’d like to think….

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This is an example of tragedy of the commons. Yes, in isolation, if you're the only one doing it, concealed carry might make you safer. But: living in a society where you are allowed to concealed carry, is also a society where shootings will be dramatically more common.

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It doesn't do shit to make you safer. It just increases the number of people around you who can shoot you.

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Insane logic to apply to schools

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Though the best heirechy of defense is avoid, escape, fight. Carrying skews your perspective on that, especially if not well trained. Non-deadly attacks can turn deadly if countered with deadly force. Your likelihood of being in range at a public mass shooting, offense or

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You ancedote is unfortunately not data. You have many legitimate threats that reasonably justify weapons. Everyday people are much less likely to need weapons for self defense. Gun owners as a group are far more likely to shoot themself or an acquaintance than a stranger.

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It might make you safer *conditional* on someone trying to kill you, but still not make you safer unconditionally (since, e.g., it might raise the probability that someone will try to kill you).

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In military and law enforcement tactical training you learn how fluid and unnatural a gun fight truly is... Even having significant civilian range practice, for most people a gun doesn't make you more likely to function like in the movies.

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