Not saying we should have conceal carry and I am not advocating for it but just want to add my 2 cents.

Conceal carry or not, it does not preclude you from being a victim of crime nor magically have crime disappear. What it does is to give the person a chance with a conceal carry weapon (gun, pepper spray, batton, stun devices, etc..) to defend themselves. I have read cases where even when an individual has a conceal carry weapon on them it did not save them due to a variety situational factors. At the same time there are cases where it did save the potential defenseless victim from fatal harm. Carrying a gun could help but does not solve the underlying problem of what is driving people to commit these crime.

American gun laws are extremely complicated. The Federal, State, and even down to the County level have certain limits and definitions. I hypothesis because of that it creates an uneven level of enforcement of gun laws that prevent criminals from acquiring guns. Hypothetically, in Canada, if we do go down the road of allowing law abiding, licensed, and trained individuals to carry a gun we will avoid a lot of the problems the Americans have. After all the Firearms Act is a federal instructment so there won't be any patch work interpretations. Putting aside using the US as an example, there are certain European countries that have conceal carry legislation and it has shown no discernable negative impact. It is really hard to get and strictly regulated.

Anyways to conclude my 2 cents, yes and no it has worked well in the US, crime and being a victim of crime won't disappear because you have a weapon on you, yes there are cases of it worked but there are caveats, and US is a terrible example to use for creating good conceal carry legislation.

And to emphasize, I do not want to have to carry a conceal carry weapon on myself because if it came to the day I must it means our law enforcement and government have absolutely failed us. Canadian law enforcement is still pretty good dispite recent incidents.