I've already said if I lived where you do I'd probably be paranoid about guns too. I don't care whether you lunatics have guns or not. Someone pointing a gun at me is something i've never really had to think about, which seems like something to be thankful for when reading threads like this.

There are numerous possible conclusions to your robbery scenario. If "concealed carry" was such an effective deterrent then why is the criminal chancing his arm in the first place?

This very thread was about a possible "crime" that involved a gun. However, Zimmerman-Martin was a confrontation between two NON criminals. So how big a factor did the gun play in this?

Zimmerman - the man with the gun - got attacked. Now I assume Martin didn't know he had a gun, but regardless it didn't prevent the confrontation. Zimmerman was the one screaming for help getting his arse kicked. What if Martin had noticed the gun? What if he wrestled it off Zimmerman? Would Zimmerman have even tracked him in the first place without the gun?

The gun just made things worse.