More people likely to carry legal concealed weapons on West Coast now

The shootings on the college campus in Oregon will tend to make students, teachers and professors in all school (which legal and allowed) carry loaded pistols to school or work. This is likely more true in the western states than it would be in Eastern States where because of population density people don't use firearms for hunting or protection as much.

So, carrying and using firearms is just more natural to people West of the Mississippi river and South of the Mason Dixon line that in most Northeastern States.

It is an entirely different culture where owning and having and using firearms is still a part of the west and south. So, a firearm is view more like one would view a shovel or a rake, in other words it is a tool to kill varmints or where the law is 50 to 100 miles away to be your own law in an emergency.

In the western states the law might literally be 50 to 100 miles away often and if you expect them to save you you will just be dead by the time a Sheriff gets there. So, you defend yourself from people or animals or varmints wherever you are.

It's been this way for several hundred years already.

So, people now realize that what should happen is those willing to take on the responsibility of protecting themselves and others from harm will be armed and return fire in an emergency.

In this last shooting if only one student or teacher (once this young man began shooting) had pulled out their loaded firearm and said, "I'm making a citizens arrest! Drop your gun or I'll shoot"
there might have been a whole lot less dead and wounded people there.

So, especially in the western states where people are often trained from an early age how to safely use firearms, you are going to see more people returning fire in these kinds of situations, especially teachers and professors who get training in marksmanship and dealing with this kind of situation.

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