Plzen wrote:Diopolis wrote:That certainly appears to be an inoperable antique. I mean, if it got pointed at me, it'd actually make me feel safer that the criminal in question can't come up with something more intimidating.
I’d feel otherwise. I think I’d rather deal with a smart criminal than an incompetent one.
You can trust a smart person to do whatever is best for him/herself, and if someone is pointing a gun at me but not shooting, I’m pretty sure murder isn’t what that person has in mind. Probably some sort of robbery. The criminal walks away with my wallet.
An incompetent criminal? Who knows what an incompetent person will do? Someone who can’t tell what a decent handgun looks like probably doesn’t know too much about how to handle one, either. I could lose my life over a simple robbery. I own very little property that can’t be replaced, but my life is pretty darn irreplaceable.
Citizen firearms training is probably a good idea even if much of that training ends up in criminal minds.
I'm the sort of personality unlikely to be calm and cooperative- not saying I'd be effective resistance here, but that I wouldn't be likely to cooperate well- and thus the "give up my wallet" theory is probably not going to work for me. I'd rather have a chance to fight.
Plus, that doesn't necessarily mean the criminal is stupid. Karen the soccer mom doesn't know it's inoperable. Chances are the rest of the population doesn't either. A smart criminal brings a gun with the hope that he doesn't have to use it, and the odds are rando on the street won't know what that is and will cooperate.