Does the same "self defense" rational apply in these very benign locations?
Of course it does, yet as I already pointed out it depends on how relevant you hold the statistical probability, if someone wants to carry a gun in a location with almost no chance of ever needing it's use then who am I to really argue their happiness.
And if the mind set was i'm going to say "freed" then they wouldn't be taking anything from others.
Thanks for the information Bulldog34, although I think the figures can prove a point I can't say I support the idea that everyone should have to be armed, that is taking their rights away just the same if they could not have guns with different implications of course, people should always be allowed to not own a gun as much as they should be allowed to own them IMO.
I do like though when states have things like guns put into their constitution, it stops draconian local ordinances.
