Questions About Good People Carrying Guns

NOT LONG AGO in a crowded shopping mall in North Carolina, an off duty police officer drew his gun and killed another man, who was also armed. This information alone is sufficient to raise red flags, or to at least rasie a few questions. The whole thing will doubtless get sorted out in court over the ensuing months, but just suppose for the sake of argument that both men were carrying guns legally. That means that they were both good people, with no criminal records, no history of violence, responsible citizens of the sort we want to have carrying guns, because people like these two men can stop a mass murderer and save lives. Isn't that the reasoning? We want good people not only to have the right to carry, but we want them to actually carry weapons, to protect us all from potential mass murderers, from armed bad people, right? We have taken the guns out of the hands of bad people, legally, and now bad people can only carry guns illegally. That's the best we can do, make it illegal for bad people to carry guns, and legal for good people to pack heat. So now, many many good people are legally carrying. Two such people were the two men in the North Carolina mall; two good guys who happened to have a difference of opinion, one of whom ended up killing the other over a personal dispute. Question: in a soceity with many good people carrying, how often will one good person kill another good person, over some dispute, or some mistake or misunderstanding? That's a fair question. It would appear that we will soon have a chance to find out.