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Originally Posted by California Tanker
This is true (though I routinely carry a knife, it's not that uncommon). That said, people carry sidearms precisely in case they get into situations which require their use, to include fights in which they fear for their safety. It's something of a catch-22: The problem is that the fight shouldn't have started to begin with, but if Zimmerman's account is correct, he cannot be blamed for doing exactly what he was licensed to carry a sidearm for. The flipside of the coin is to prohibit people from carrying sidearms in the hope that in a future conflict between otherwise generally law-abiding people both sides can tell their story: Which doesn't help much in the cases where one party is less law abiding anyway. Which is more important overall?
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If only Martin had also been licensed to carry a sidearm too! Then things would have been
even safer.