Carry conceal is a different subject altogether. I do not carry either of my weapons unless I am shooting them. They are at my apartment. I do not have a carry conceal permit nor do I think I need one. Besides, unless you plan on wearing a jacket in the summer in Oklahoma (regularly 100F) my Glock is too big to carry concealed. The .22 in unsuitable as a personal defense weapon as it does not have enough power to stop a grown man unless it's a lucky shot. I use it for plinking. Its cheap and easy to use.
My pistol is not the best weapon for home defense either, but they are what I have chosen. The best weapon is a 12 gauge shot gun sawed off to the legal barrell limit and loaded with #4 field shot. It can completely clear a door way and will not miss like #00 buck will.
As far as gun control laws go, it has never proven effective to eliminate shootings by banning guns. Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles all have strict gun coontrol laws and all lead the nation in shootings. Oklahoma has more registered gun owners than any other state and we have less shootings statewide in one year than Washington DC has in six months.
According to the Federal Bureau of Vital Statistics there were 2,403,351 deaths in America last year. Of those deaths a firearm was used in 28,663 of those deaths. That is 1.2% of the total. Firearm deaths include police shootings, suicides and accidental deaths as well as homicides and defensive shootings. While I believe that this number must decrease, it is still very low.
Now I am not going to play the role and say that if everyone had guns then gun deaths would decrease because that is flawed thinking. Far too many people are not stable enough to walk around with a weapon. Hell, some people cannot operate in polite society unarmed. But, I agree that banning guns because of the misbehavior of a minor segment of the community does a disservice to the rest.
I find that pretty hard to believe.
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