I'd like to link to a story of a brave gun-owner

[james_davis_nicoll]

of the sort who I am sure, from the rhetoric used to defend the American 2nd Amendment, leaps up to defend endangered crowds of innocents from people like Jim David Adkisson and Buford O. Furrow but for some reason I cannot find any examples. Instead, have the story of Joshua Seto, and a lesson in why it's a bad idea to jam a gun down the front of your pants.

[added later]
snippy offers Pearl High School in comments.

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"But we've got decades of experience now, and there's no evidence that altercations get escalated by people with carry permits."

At least in Maine, which is a "shall issue" state, the percentage of people with concealed-carry licenses remains extremely small.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

If you're like most shall-issue states, it's a couple of orders of magnitude larger than in discretionary-issue states like California; so it should be a big enough difference to make an easily-visible statistical bump over decades.

But it doesn't seem to be, anywhere. My conclusion is that people who go to the trouble of getting permits to carry, and then actually carrying, are not people with impulse-control problems.