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If I were rational, I wouldn't be a criminal.

As I understand it, criminals hold up places of business in the US all the time whose owners/staff are, and where there is certainly a very good chance they will be, armed. At least so I gather from reading Guns in the News. A rational criminal wouldn't be taking the chance of getting killed by a cashier with a firearm.

A rational criminal wouldn't be holding up a business when it was full of customers, armed or not.

Somehow I doubt that a would-be robber who is willing to go up against a proprietor who is much more likely to be armed than any customer, and/or to try to rob a business when there are customers milling around, armed or not, is going to put the possibility of customers carrying concealed firearms into that balance and suddenly find the enterprise too risky, when his/her careful assessment of the situation had shown it to be a perfectly reasonable proposition until that factor intervened.