At least in the mind of many "responsible gun owners". This was made clear yesterday when 43-year-old vigilante Michael Foster saw a black man put a handgun in his holster and decided that there was no legal reason a Black man should be concealing a handgun.
Bigot Michael Foster followed the shopper into a Walmart and tackled the man to the ground and put him into a choke hold yelling "he has a gun".
When police arrived, they did the right thing and arrested the bigot.
We have seen the pro-gun types get all excited about events like the Bundy ranch - pointing guns at police employed by the Federal Government get bent out of shape when a black activist suggests that blacks go to the range and learn to use guns safely so they can protect themselves from local police.
But lets leave that aside for a moment to digress into a wild tangent not aimed at making the victim in this story sound bad. Why did the victim feel the need to have a hand gun in a Walmart?
The point behind having a gun, in this case a 62 year old man, is to be able to protect yourself from the unlikely event that you get attacked by someone. Sounds reasonable, you never know when a 43 year old bigot, say by the name of Michael Foster, may attack you from behind and try to kill you with a choke hold. Why something like this is why you want your gun so you can fight off the much younger and bigger attacker, right?
So how did that work out in real life? The armed CCW permit holder with a gun, was more worried about breathing than pulling the gun from his concealed holster, aiming it, and shooting.
Theory vs reality.
But i'm very glad the bigot got arrested.