Reply #7: why does anyone need to carry a gun? [View All]

Ok, you're visiting New York or Chicago and you get lost and have a flat tire and its night. How many times is that going to happen?

Why do you need a gun in a bar?
In a restaurant?
In a grocery store?
On the street?

Sorry but speaking as a 'naive' Canadian where guns (especially in an urban environment) just are not a part of our culture, it seems astoundingly stressful and dangerous way of living when you don't know who is packing heat and who isn't when you are going about your day to day business.

I can understand non-automatic rifles for hunting, and even a gun at home, locked away unloaded, for protection, but carrying them around in public? That concept is just so foreign to us up here, and I'm glad it is.