Are you kidding me? Everyone should already be doing that. Women are assaulted by men in public washrooms all the time. Men are assaulted by men in public washrooms all the time.
Would you prefer having armed police officers guarding every door, asking for your "bill gates vaccine microchip medical history mastercard sexgender and human fertility" scan??
What I'd prefer is all children armed with firearms after the age of ~3, and properly supervised by their parents at all times until they reach majority, and start supervising their own children.
End of problem.
Would pepper spray perhaps be a "better" solution?
I'm not sure I'd like to be staring down the barrel of a loaded gun when trying to convince a 3 year old to brush their teeth, or take their medicine, or go to bed at a reasonable hour.
I never did have to stare down armed resistance to household duties and I did start training my sons to bear arms ~3. When I went to high school in Alaska it was not uncommon for students to bring firearms to school on the bus, so they could hunt on the hike home in season. Normal peer pressures and shenanigans were constant factors at school, including fights and such, but no one ever threatened anyone with guns.
Guns are tools, and tools are useful for specific jobs. Guns are for killing, not for competing over Mary Jane's rotten crotch or the like. When kids are raised to be competent with tools like guns, cars, and chainsaws, they tend not to misuse or abuse those tools at all.
It's the incompetent you have to watch out for.
Edit: I should add that I started firearms training ~3, Chainsaws ~8, and cars ~10. This reflected the relative dangers and difficulty of handling each type of tool, and how necessary they were to my sons. Firearms are simple, easy, and utterly critical to survival. Kids are competent to survive under fire from an early age, and this is revealed in the history of humanity in the fossil record.
I guess it makes sense.
If everyone, including the gays and the hippies and the SJW's and the homeless lunatics all had a six-shooter strapped to their belt, then nobody would ever be the victim of a crime.
Remember the good-old-days when we'd just shoot people we didn't like?
I mean, look, I understand that in smaller communities where people actually know each other, it's easier to build trust with your neighbors. And teaching children responsible tool use might be a reasonable option for specific parents and specific children.
I just don't think that giving everyone a gun is going to make you safer.
There are too many lunatics already.
The last thing we need is to make them even more deadly.
It would be nice if every parent trusted their child with a loaded weapon.
I just don't see that as being realistic.
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You clearly aren't thinking rationally on this topic, since you're contradicting yourself. You insinuated that my history wasn't true. Why would you have to believe I was lying rather than agree that being armed isn't dangerous? You also insinuated that strapping responsible people means that lunatics would be strapped too. You're being silly.
I note you degraded what I did say to fit into the gungrabber narrative. I don't advocate just handing out guns. I advocate what I did, which is to train people to use guns from an early age.
You worry about lunatics, but that is a strawman. Lunatics don't just suddenly appear. They've been lived with all their lives, and the people that deal with them daily don't just hand them guns. Except for the FBI, which has been caught over and over again preying on mentally challenged people in their efforts to create terrorists. Again, you've been unconsciously adopting propaganda rather than actually considering the matter.
Here's the bald truth: humanity rules itself, and always has. Folks want to delegate the dirty work of integrity and security to others so they can just lay back, read magazines and eat bon bons, but that's neither responsible nor safe.
Human beings maintain their own security, and those as delegate it to others become dependents on those others. Don't be a dependent. Be a sovereign.
It's your destiny.
Edit: you raise the strawman argument that if we were armed we'd just start murdering people we don't like. Did that happen? Not much, because most people aren't homocidal maniacs. Are you a homocidal maniac? Would you just shoot people you didn't like?
You clearly haven't been trained how to use firearms, or you'd know damn well that you wouldn't. If you would, why the hell should I care what a homocidal maniac thinks? Think about these things and learn about them before you make declarative statements and you'll be able to be taken seriously.
Not even close.
I believe you 100%.
Well, then explain your feeling that it couldn't work, because it did. Psychos didn't gun their fellow students down.
I agree in principle.
However, not every person is capable of defending themselves.
What do you propose we "do about" the adult homeless population that didn't happen to be born with the good luck of having a responsible parent with the foresight to teach them proper tool usage from the age of three?
If they're educable, it's never too late.
What is your preferred system for deciding who is allowed to carry a weapon?
I command me. My preferred system is to be ready for lunatics packing.
As kids grow up, they are availed plentiful opportunities to reveal their character. If they present existential threats to many, they will in turn be existentially threatened. Throughout the history of humanity this has been the winnowing of chaff.
I guess if we're "lucky" all the homicidal maniacs are recruited by the police and military.
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Now, just think if those massacred had been armed. This is why you want to be armed, and not disarmed.