The claim that someone fears gun owners so much that they would flee without paying for food

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83. Why? Because nuts with guns shoot people.

You think your argument is upheld because you look at the stats and see that for the few thousand people across the country who can't leave home without a gun, there isn't a corresponding trail of obituaries. That's like the climate deniers who say that carbon dioxide is a plant food and the more CO2 in the environment the better plants will grow.

It isn't necessary to actually shoot someone to create fear and terrorize a crowd of people. Given the ongoing headlines about mass murderers who target public places, just seeing some armed stranger with a gun is enough to create havoc and panic. You might picture yourself as Dudley Do Right or a comic book super hero, but to someone that sees your gun, you're a dangerous weirdo, an unpredictable threat to their safety because no normal person needs a gun to eat their burger and fries.

How would someone determine that you're not mentally unstable, or if you were there to kill your exwife or exboss, or rob the place, or maybe you would go ballistic if some rambunctious little kids annoyed you? That wouldn't be an issue if you decided to walk into public venues toting your drill motor or a caulking gun.