All the cliches aside, I honestly feel safer in mall or Walmart where I know there are a bunch of CCW carriers than I do driving on the highway.
I feel this way for a couple of reason. First My life has been put in danger many times by other drivers on the road. I have never been threatened or made to feel unsafe by by a CCW holder. Second, I can't speak for all states but here in MO you have to have a lily white clean record to even get a CCW permit. I know all the folks with a CCW truly are the "good guys" who respect and obey the law.
I remember when our CCW law finally passed. The anti gunners were getting in the news media and were going on about how there would be gun fights in the streets and we would have "gun rage" just there was road rage and on and on. Not a bit of that has ever happened. I have a good friend and fellow engraver who lives in Osh Kosh. He told me his local media did the same thing recently when WI's law was being passed. So far they haven't had any of that come true either.
The worst problems I can remember here in MO was one elderly lady accidentally left her gun in a bathroom shelf in a store not to long ago and the store owner ended up turning it over to the police. There was another incident right after our law passed where another lady left her gun in here purse in a shopping cart and left the purse open and a kid found the gun. No one was hurt but both made the news. Both were stupid and careless and should have never happened. That has been the extent of problems in MO. The street arguments and fights that people fear just never happen.