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Originally Posted by edogg
This is exactly right. And sometimes what starts off as a simple "give me your wallet" can escalate even when the victim submits.
Examples:
Man shot during apparent robbery in Tacoma | Crime | The News Tribune
Woman shot during robbery at Vista restaurant - 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego
Often, as in TiAg's story, the would-be victim presenting a gun is enough to deter the bad guy. Bad guys want easy targets. Being ready to defend yourself can make them reconsider their actions.
Another story from a friend. He grew up in a bad area of the city and was visiting family who still lives there. Sitting at a stop light with his daughter strapped into her car seat in the back, a guy walks up with a gun and says "get out of your car". My friend pulls out his revolver and says "no". The bad guy's eyes get huge and he runs away. Then my friend sees another bad guy come out of hiding from behind his car and also run away.
Do you think the bad guys are going to wait around and let my friend take his daughter out of her car seat? Hardly...had he gotten out, not only would his car be gone, but his daughter along with it. |
We get the carjackings with children in the vehicle all the time here in TX
An interesting FBI/Justice Dept statistic shows the ""watching out for them evil gang bangers" and ""They" usually meaning "innately violent" people who don't look like us and threaten our "freedoms"" as total BS.
Data shows less the 5% (fewer then 1 in 20) shootings of African Americans are done by non-African Americans, while over 15% (more then 3 in 20) shootings of Caucasian Americians are done by non-Caucasian Americians.
With this data, the argument could be made that "profiling/don't look like us" shooting are real, Caucasians are 3 TIMES more likely to be victim of it.