Welcome from Kansas City.
100% agreed, as I think you'll find are the majority here.I carry for self-protection and believe that every person who legally can should. I believe that the more armed persons are out there the less likely the need to ever use arms. I disdain those who think that armament is some sort of macho expression of manhood and speak in terms of weapons size, firepower, or how they would "just blow them away with ..."