answer:With respect to another current question in ask-public – which I won’t link to, but only because I’m lazy, not out of any disrespect or disparagement – do you believe that there are more good people in the world than bad? Most of us, regardless of how some might answer that other question in jest or tongue in cheek, do actually believe that the “good people” in the world far outnumber those who intend harm. (Or, to follow up on a response I put in the thread myself earlier today, “those who ‘intend good’, but employ evil means, or whose ‘good’ is so subjective that only they and other fanatics can agree with them on that judgement.) The world is full (to overflowing, one might say) with good people. They have a right to defend themselves. That is what the Second Amendment to the US Constitution is about, after all. It’s not about duck or deer hunting. It’s not about target shooting. It’s also not about armies and “organized state militia”, i.e. the National Guard (although it does include those folks). It’s not about competitive shooting, gun collecting, just buying and selling guns, or mounting another revolution. It’s about people having a natural right to defend themselves through the ownership and use of arms. That happens to mean, because we believe that “most people are on balance ‘good’”, that primarily good people will be exercising that right. And they should.