A World with Lots of Guns

In Michigan two men who both had concealed carry permits pulled their guns and somehow managed to kill each other.

Police said two men with concealed-carry permits died Wednesday after a shootout allegedly motivated by road rage, the Grand Rapids Press reported. The initial police investigation showed Ionia, Mich. residents James Pullum, 43, and Robert Taylor, 56, pulled into a car wash parking lot after a confrontation on the road. They then exited their vehicles, drew handguns and exchanged fire, authorities said. Police found both men at the scene with gunshot wounds, and the two were pronounced dead at an area hospital soon after, according to the newspaper.

This is the thing about a world with lots of guns in it. There might be less of certain kinds of crime, and sometimes would-be mass shooters might be stopped by a guy with gun. But there will be a lot more killings like this.