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Originally Posted by Skunks
If someone in the room with you is armed and crazy, and you pull out your gun, that provides an immediate threat against them. It changes the armed crazy into an armed, threatened crazy. Which I rate as an individual with a higher chance of acting violently. They have an imminent need to act; that is, to shoot you. Escalation.
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The theory is that if you're pulling out your gun, you are also half a second away from pulling the trigger on the armed crazy. The armed crazy might take hostages or just wave the gun around, but the law-abiding gun owner doesn't pull it out unless it's time to shoot
right now.