Gun Control & RKBA

If seeing a gun in a restaurant is enough of a threat to make you leave then the real threat of getting food poisoning should prevent you from even entering the restaurant in the first place, just from a numbers perspective. In 2011, CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. These are only cases that reach the CDC and other recent studies estimate 1 in 4 Americans a year get food poisoning and deaths from food poisoning that occur up to 12 months after being infected are missed in the estimates.

It's like when people are asked to name the most dangerous animals to people. Lion. Shark. Wolf. Meanwhile, mosquitoes kill hundreds of times as many people as all major predators. Guns are visible. The Salmonella and Campylobacter on that slime burger, not so much.

Now perceived danger is different. I've known folks that won't wear a seat-belt because they don't want to be trapped in a car if it falls into a river or lake. What seems a reasonable response to a threat to one person is not so reasonable to another.

This woman was not just carrying a gun, she was waving it around. Not as bad as waving around the head of the waiter she just cut off and worse than waving around a bag of McNuggets.