Average gun owners? Trained? Ha... no, something in between. It isn't the purpose to make them unofficial policemen, they simply should have had a reasonable training. I am not informed enough to give you a list of tasks they should fulfill in order to get the concealed gun permit, you'd do that better than me.
They already have a concealed carry class, in most states, like the other guy said. From what I hear they are basically like Hunter's ed classes, they teach the basics of gun safety and the laws and whatnot. Isn't that enough?
Then what is the point of tazers? Why where they developed, why are they sold? To look good? They can disable a man, that should be enough.
They are sold to police officers, the purpose they where made for, in order to apprehend potentially violent people and other such things, since stunning them for a few minutes is all they need. As you can imagine, it works far better then using empty hands or batons, for both the police and the other guy. It is not, however, designed to take down armed robbers in a street confrontation, as you seem to think it is. It is made to either stun them (Hence the term "Stun gun"
or to cause enough pain that they come willingly, depending on the kind of gun.
In a discussion, you can either be conforted in your opinion, be convinced of the other opinion, or be at a stalemate. To be conforted of one's opinion now suddenly makes you wrong and christian-like? Do you even get what discusisons are about? I agreed that concealed guns can, and have, saved from shootings. I just said I was uncomfortable with armed old people like the one in the vid. How is that creationist-like??
You state that it only strengthens your views. Christians say that all the time.
Good to hear, didn't know that. You can get guns so easily in America, how should I know that concealed gun permits are better regulated?
If only there was some kind of machine or engine that could search or find out something like this for us?
But it varies from state to state, from the training to what concealed carry is. Some states don't allow them, some states you need a permit to have one in your glove box, etc. For example, in Montana, concealed carry is only on your person under cloths. You can have your gun wherever you want in your car, your house, or on your person but not concealed. Concealed weapons are not allowed in places where you would expect them to be not aloud, like schools and bars. We recognize other states permits, so if you have concealed carry somewhere else you would have it here. It is also not necessary to have a permit if you are out of a high population zone, like a city or town. That is one of the more lax laws, compared to a place with heavy laws like California, where you have to pass a test to get a handgun, can't buy anything with over 10 rounds. On concealed carry, they don't recognize other states and out of staters can't get permits. In concealed carry, you need a license to be able to have an exposed weapon even, and it is extremely difficult to get a permit in cities, where you need a "good cause". Compared to my state, they are really oppressive in their gun laws. And of course my state has less gun crimes.
I was still using the example of the old guy.
But apparently nobody but you realized this?
