Good guys carry guns

I'm sure it's been said before, but it came to me last night.

The point was brought home to me last night during an episode of Blue Bloods.   A cop who'd had a few drinks (blew .08 - just at the legal limit) intervened in a robbery where civilians could have been killed.   The rationale for not firing him was that, even though it was technically illegal for him to draw his weapon, he did the right thing and that calling 911 and waiting would have put those people at risk.

So many people are afraid of guns - more to the point, civilians carrying guns - for two reasons.

1)  We have been taught/programmed/encouraged - use whatever verb you choose - to believe that the police *will* protect us and to dial 911 in an emergency.

2)  Criminals carry guns.  We see it in the news and on TV.   Good guys (victims) in TV shows are almost always unarmed.

People now perceive that only criminals and cops *should* carry guns and are therefore fearful of good guys with guns believing that they are wolves in sheep's clothing or just irresponsible and trigger happy.

Good guys carry guns.   Good guys who would intervene in a rape, mugging, or murder of another innocent.   You should want someone there for you if (when) you are assaulted.  There's no chance I can draw faster than an assailant who already has me in his site, but I would hope that someone else would be armed that could come to my aid, just as I would theirs.

Most of the good guys who carry train as often or more often than the police who are supposed to protect you; and they do it on their own dime.  Ammo is expensive!

You don't have to carry a gun to be a good guy, but if you don't carry a gun because you're afraid of guns, why in the world would you not want to be saved by a good guy with a gun?  Or why in the world would you not want a good guy with a gun to save your daughter from being raped?   Why don't you want to be saved?