FTA
"And when you're going to insist upon this in public spaces or shared spaces like a basketball game or a park, then you're really intruding into where other people get their personal sense of safety."
That's a pretty standard anti view, and it really goes to the heart of gun control. They would rather
feel safe than
be safe. And they don't mind make things less safe for you to preserve that feeling. I remember talking about gun control in a college class, and someone mentioned that they would feel really uncomfortable knowing if someone had a gun in the room, and that's why they shouldn't be allowed. Nevermind the physical benefit of being able to fend of a rapist or school shooter instead of waiting 7+ minutes for police to come clean up the scene. Her own feelings of being uncomfortable were enough to ban guns.
Concealed carry in school is one of the last big holdouts, and a pretty big deal to a lot of people. There are a lot of gun owner students who are disarmed for large portions of their day while at school, and sometimes even the car ride to and from. On the other hand, colleges are a big source of much left-wing indoctrination, so it doesn't seem likely that professors, and the young people who eat up what they feed them, will change their minds very soon. I think that inside a college, the population is skewed far more towards the anti end than most other areas of life. A handful of professors being given carte blanche authority to spew anti propaganda to young students, combined with the over reliance on "feeling" that many college students have makes schools a big roadblock to CCW.
I think that once concealed carry and even open carry on college campi is accepted and normal, we can finally say that gun culture has a real place in America once again.
Also FTA
"There's a kind of Second Amendment reconstructionism going on which has to do with Western individuality, freedom from coercion ... moving about and not having to explain your business to people,"
To me, that's the core of the United States. The freedom to do what you want, so long as you don't actually harm others, without having to explain yourself or limit yourself because it makes someone else feel bad or scared. Being your own person with your own mind and your own actions. Concealed carry, or even open carry, to me is a lot less about protection and more about my freedom to act how I want with no regard to the feelings of others. That may sound rude or callous, but in return I fully expect others to act how they want without regard to my feelings. I won't harm you, you don't harm me, and we can both just do what we want. Neither of us owes each other anything. Neither of us inherently obligated to the other.
