At least your alive to face that condemnation."The wisest action is often to escape from the scene asap."
Yeah, but such action will be condemned by the "I'd take care of that bad man "crowd ".
Well...SOMBODY has to post this:And an example where two separate LTC holders respond, not knowing about each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...its-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds/?noredirect=on
While it turned out well, it should be educational.
Mine has a target on it.Well...SOMBODY has to post this:
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And an example where two separate LTC holders respond, not knowing about each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...its-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds/?noredirect=on
While it turned out well, it should be educational.
It seems to me that most posts here favor staying out of it, ...
Which is really interesting given the pro-gun mantra over the last several years about how, "If there was just one person there with a gun, they could have stopped it." However, we now know that most people there, if they had a gun, would be doing their best to run away with the unarmed people.
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Which is really interesting given the pro-gun mantra over the last several years about how, "If there was just one person there with a gun, they could have stopped it." However, we now know that most people there, if they had a gun, would be doing their best to run away with the unarmed people.
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Yep. I think there is a mental aspect about it to which may lead to that decision. Strapping on a gun, getting your LTC, and going to the range where you out shoot your local LEOs (because they can't shoot worth a damn) is one thing, engaging a murderer is another. Now tactics become paramount to shooting a bullseye and most don't practice this. I get it, most have wife, kids, family and really, who wants to die in a gunfight? IF you carry on a regular basis, you do so for SD and look, an AS is a SD situation. It is just the decent thing to do as a human IF you can do so. Now IF you are right by an exit door, take it.
It seems to me that most posts here favor staying out of it, while others say engage. For me I really do not know how I would react. I have never been in a situation as described. I do not know if I would stay and fight or take flight. It is easy to sit at my keyboard and do scenarios, but in real life, who knows. Just my pieve on this, not denigrating anyone.
One thing to remember.....for every opportunity you make to shoot the murderer, the murderer has the same opportunity to shoot you.
Personally, if I can keep those odds at or near 0%, I'll do that.
So are you discounting the stories of a good guy with a gun? The last statistic I saw there were more good guy with a gun incidences then there have been mass shootings.Right, preservationally sound logic, but contrary to a lot of the chest thumping by the gun community over the last several years about how CCW people are going to be causing a decline of crime and mass shootings.
Rates of crime, including mass shootings don't change because of citizens with guns. Some of the individual crimes may be influenced by citizens with guns (which is good), but criminals really aren't that fearful of citizens with guns. They may not like to encounter them, but it doesn't stop them from doing bad things. Every time one robs a store or person, does a home invasion, tries to carjack somebody, they know there is a chance of running into a person with a gun who might be able to bring themselves to using it. They also know that they have an exceeding good possibility of getting away with their crime unharmed.
Actually, crime rates have fallen where concealed carry has become more common.Right, preservationally sound logic, but contrary to a lot of the chest thumping by the gun community over the last several years about how CCW people are going to be causing a decline of crime and mass shootings.
Rates of crime, including mass shootings don't change because of citizens with guns. Some of the individual crimes may be influenced by citizens with guns (which is good), but criminals really aren't that fearful of citizens with guns. They may not like to encounter them, but it doesn't stop them from doing bad things. Every time one robs a store or person, does a home invasion, tries to carjack somebody, they know there is a chance of running into a person with a gun who might be able to bring themselves to using it. They also know that they have an exceeding good possibility of getting away with their crime unharmed.
True... But what if you get smoked and say you have 3 little kids at home that relied on you. They will not appreciate your efforts.It would seem so. I'd want to escape from the store too, but I dunno if I could live with myself knowing I left the store leaving dozens of people to die and dozens more to get hurt despite the fact that I'm armed and probably one of the only people there that could've done something about it.