Don't Guns Make It More Dangerous Out There?

This one's for all the weenie-tots and ferners (Ferner is a word the people of Kentucky frequently apply to anyone who was born outside of the county. The actual word should be foreigner, and I am one since I wasn't born in the Commonwealth. The 27 years I've been in this part of the country are irrelevant). In this particular case, I'm using the word ferner to refer to people from urban areas, and people from outside the United States, both of whom often have trouble understanding the gun culture of much of the United States, especially in the rural areas.

The first statement such people usually make is that if the bad guys don't have guns either, then no one would have guns, and things would be safer. When I stop laughing, I try to enlighten them. Most are not interested. Here's the reality:

1) I've never had a problem with felons with guns. If they display it in a manner that's obvious, that's a long stretch in jail. That's not about to happen. Also, they are mainly drug dealers who only want to protect themselves and 2-bit thugs who only pick on the weak. The fact that I am still alive speaks to the fact they they are not that violent. I know, this is contrary to what the city folk in the United States know, but in flyover country, it is generally accurate.

2) Law enforcement is an hour away, sorry, I can't wait that long.

3) My main problem is self-centered narcissists, both the locally grown druggie type, the local nobility and those that come down to vacation. For some reason, you find these people running around in packs or a half dozen or so. They also usually have a like number of large dogs running with them who occasionally run off to attack someone's pet, much to the amusement of these sub-human life forms. In other words, typical inner city wanna be thugs with dogs added. And, let's not forget the coyote attack of a few months ago that cost a child it's life. Carrying a sidearm seems like a logical decision in such circumstances. Amazingly, groups of wannabes tend to avoid people who might be armed, and thus able to cause them problems. Of course a better one would be for the police to act. But, that would cut down on the profits of the local nobility, so that's not about to happen.