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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.

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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!

9:37 PM · May 24, 2022

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What do you mean by "defense"? I've read some descriptions, the vast majority of opportunities are either: shoot someone for open carrying before they initiate harm, or shoot someone so they only kill 3 people instead of 30. This isn't safety