If motorists are armed, their irrational anger at being cut off or tail-ended by another car becomes dangerous. Nevertheless, those things are bound to happen when people have guns. The idea behind gun rights activism follows that if people are armed, they can defend themselves. Or so they speculate. According to the US Department of Justice, about 1 percent of all victims of violence used a firearm to defend themselves between 1987-92.
People begin to think, after a while, that having a gun is fun and easy.
If there is trouble, they could just whip out their pistol and take control of the situation. The reality is that gunfights usually last an average of six seconds with a whopping average of three shots fired. An untrained civilian would get injured in any confrontation, even if they had their gun. Americans seem prone to think that guns are the cure-all for violence and crime. This is reinforced, and possibly created, by television and movies.