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Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead
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No one who walks around with a gun every day is a person I consider "normal"
Everyone is one bad day away from making bad choices and those choices are significantly more dangerous if you have a gun
Would you consider cops "normal?" Because legal concealed carriers are about 6x less likely to commit a crime than a police officer. They also stop more crimes and make fewer mistakes leading to fewer accidents. It's a natural knee jerk hypothesis to assume that the presence of a gun would make a bad day turn deadly but it just doesn't happen. The bottom line is that only a small subset of the population actually acts on those intrusive thoughts, and they aren't the general law abiding public; they are the criminal element that already exists and arms themselves regardless of the law.
No I don't think cops are "normal" at all - they're literally the exception of every concept of normality because we have given them a monopoly on violence on purpose.
Depending on which state you live in, you likely pass and interact with people that are armed that you have no clue about, because they are just normal people.
I am aware that more people are armed than I would like. I find that fact to be disturbing and those people to be weird.
There just isn't that much to be that afraid of for 99% of people.