I think Ted Simon covered this off best - he says that carrying a weapon of any kind is just an invitation to have to use it.
To my mind pulling a weapon is a sure way to escalate the situation rather than calm it and get out of it alive, or without having had to injure or kill someone else - in very few situations will you pulling your weapon cause the people on the other side to run away.
More often than not the best way to deal with the most dangerous of situations is to smile, take off your sun glasses and engage.
I know us Europeans are so much more soft and squiggy than our American cousins.... but I think it's a point of view that exports itself around the world rather better than a gun-ho approach.
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