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Jaguar wrote:At one point you hear someone saying (paraphrasing), "we need gas masks, we can't go into the theater without gas masks." My thought on hearing that was; people are dying, someone is shooting, put on your big boy panties and get in there and try to stop it. I've been subjected to CS and it sucks, it makes it hard to see, but you can function, "Jaguar, Private E-1 United States Army, 123-45-6789."

Partially in their defense, it's unlikely they knew what the foreign substance was at that time.

It's just another example of the fact that we can't abdicate our right to self defense to anybody. I've got LEOs in my immediate family, and even they'll tell you - they usually get to a scene just in time to start first aid, taking witness report,s and snapping photographs.

I've been trying to stop people from the "we could stop a massacre" argument. It is true. It could happen.

But the most compelling argument for concealed carry is that during such a tragedy, at the moment somebody's gun is pointed at my family, my friends, or me, I've at least got a chance to defend myself. There's no dignity in disarming the law-abiding citizen in that moment. Bigger and better things may result from concealed carry (protecting the masses), but all we're asking for at the end of the day is the right to have a fighting chance when our life is on the line.

That's what the knucklehead from New Jersey seems to be overlooking.