Originally posted by SaburoS
Out of curiosity.
How many here have actually been in a situation to be attacked by surprise?
How about robbed? If so, what type of threat/weapon did they use?
I'm 43 and have never been attacked or threatened with an attack.
My dwellings have been burgled twice in my lifetime.
I feel quite safe in present day America.
We have a much higher chance of getting in a car accident or dying from complications of a poor diet/lack of excercise/tobacco and/or alcohol use than by a gun, knife, bat, etc.
These gun threads are kind of silly with the "we'll be so much safer without them" arguments. Fact is we're all going to die one day. The odds of it being ended by violence will be very small.
I don't want to be a part of a society that thinks that by banning things like guns, knives, etc, that all of a sudden we'll be safer. We won't. People will continue to use "tools" to further their aims regardless of the laws.
March 1998 Oakland California.
I came home at lunch time and parked my vehicle in front of my house. A gentelman was standing in the alley between my property and my neighbors holding a kitchen knife. I stepped out of my vehical, keeping it between me and the person and asked why he was on my property. He lied telling me the lady who lived in my house had said he could. I had left her 15 minutes earlier where she and I worked together. I asked him to leave my property because he was trespassing. He refused. At the same time he hid his knife from my view behind his back. I asked him to show me what was in his hand. He refused. I stepped to the front of my vehicle and unzipped my fanny pouch placing my hand on my glock 27 in preparation for a cross draw. I then gave him 2 choices, run away now, or I would shoot him. He chose to run, and we are both alive.
Being that I live in california, this is Oakland, and I am white while he was black, I did not want any adittional problems. His choosing to run was sufficient for me. During the late 90's I worked in Richmond CA for a EDI company QRS Corp. at a bay front business park. 2 miles away was a neighborhood the local PD was not willing to go into after dark. In 2 years there had been 6 shootings with 2 fatalities within a mile of where I parked. Both of people working in the business park. One shooting was a hollywood style drug dealer bust shootout in a parking lot 300 yards from my parking spot. Since I often went home after 9pm at night, I chose to carry.
At the time it seemed prudent, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. All of the stances on morality in history will not bring your life back.
