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I never understood why the Americans have to carry a weapon at all. I can understand (to some degree) to want to own a weapon (to defend your home from other people with guns, going hunting, shooting cans, etc. pp), but to carry it outside while doing normal things like shopping, dinning, watching a movie?
For robbers, rapists, kidnappers etc. They show up while doing "normal things" ..so.
Some carry while camping, on road trips, etc. Situations where you're likely to be alone and emergency services would take a long time to respond.
There's also plenty of paranoid or insecure people.
Americans believe they live in a post-apocalypse where a shootout could start at any moment.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Congratulations! You are privileged enough to believe that everyone lives in a modern day utopia in which nothing bad can ever happen to them so why would anyone else feel the need to protect themselves.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/21/europe/prague-university-shooting-intl/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/london-new-years-eve-boy-stabbed-6400e7e3b1fa0e7d7d2ab3669c48278c
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/four-children-mom-found-dead-christmas-day-france-rcna131184
Because you can't rely on cops to protect you and can't expect regular people to forego violence if they believe it will get them what they want.
Statistically, guns don't stop crimes, they just make them worse. The "good guy with a gun vs bad guy with a gun" is nothing but a fantasy.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251894/number-of-justifiable-homicides-in-the-us/
In 2022, there were literally only 463 justifiable homicides in the US. And that's with all weapons, not just firearms.
Gun carriers are not stopping crimes, they're just playing power fantasies.
Note that only covers homicides, the criminal died. Guns can save people from going that far as well. Everything from yelling, "Don't come here, I have a gun," to showing it, to firing and wounding or missing the criminal isn't in that statistic. One FBI statistic a few years ago put it around 2-4 million instances of defensive uses of guns that year.
Statistically you'll never be mugged, raped, or murdered, so why do anything to prevent any of them?
It's really a very very small minority of Americans who are like that at all.
The worst part is that they leave their guns in their cars and then they get stolen and used in murders and robberies. The people who conceal carry are usually not the people you want doing it anyway.