I reply, because crime is out of control, so anyone who does not carry is a fool.
Although some crime is wasp, most crime is minority based. The blundered resolution of the American Civil War created a huge underclass of freed slaves which has resulted in the majority of our street crime today. And an open border with Mexico has resulted in much of the balance of the crime wave we have now. And also, ratholes like NYC and Chicago have spawned and bred career criminals of all races who are opportunistic, and they live for the opportunity of finding an anti-gun fool.
From the first colonization of America when the land was being wrested away from the indigenous peoples, who have since become mostly extinct in North America north of the Rio Grande, guns were a necessity, unless you were a fool. Other indigenous peoples from south of the Rio Grande combined with non-indigenous African ghetto rats now account for most of the hostility today, although a fair share of caucasian psychopaths is also on the loose all over America, north and south.
And since God did not create all men equal, we must instead rely on Samuel Colt and John Browning at times instead.
You can give your heart to Jesus but you still need to protect your azz with a gun until Jesus comes again.