Quote Originally Posted by plv
I enjoy shooting and I like guns (as in a neat piece of machinery, not as in I feel more like a man when I have one in my pocket type thing). And I support being able to own one and taking it to the shooting range. But I do not support everybody carrying it around everywhere, wtf. Kids walk to school in the streets, little teenage girls go shopping by themselves at the mall, cops catch you for driving by a stop sign, etc. You live in the USA, not fucking Somalia.
wtf does kids walking in the streets or little girls at the mall have to do with it? Do you think that just because someone applies for a GFL and the state approves them that they are going to go out and shoot little kids walking to school or little girls at the mall. What kind of dumb shit are you thinking? Hundreds of thousands of people in GA already have a GFL. You probably pass people every single day who have a GFL and are concealing a pistol, and never even know it. The type of person who has a clean record and takes the time to apply for the license so they can carry a pistol legally and do things the right way is not the kind of person who is going to go out and shoot innocent people. Criminals who have a past record and do not have a license to carry a firearm legally are the types who are most likely to be involved with violent crimes than someone who has a GFL and carrys a pistol for personal protection only. I've had mine for 3 years, and I carry everywhere except work. I've never had to pull mine, but there have been times when I thought I may have to, and having the extra sense of security and being able to stay calm was able to get me through the situation. One time a guy walked up to me in an empty parking lot when I was leaving a store around 9pm in Macon. I was putting bags in the car when I saw this crackhead motherfucker coming up. He had one hand in his coat and the other hand was clinched into a fist. I didn't even give him a chance to try to rob me, I opened my coat and he saw me start to take my pistol out of the holster and he turned around and walked off. Just having the pistol on me made a difference in being robbed and possibly injured.

If you honestly think that people who have a GFL (Which means they have a perfectly clean record by default) are going to go around shooting innocent people, you really are an idiot.