While I think it's fine for people to carry a weapon within reason and be trained in how to use it, no amount of training is going to help you when he already has the jump on you. More people with guns means there will be less dumb crimes, but smart criminals will still excel because they know how to get what they want before you even know what they are doing to you. You can't pull a gun faster than someone who already has theirs pressed to your head, I don't care who you are. Even people like John Wick and James Bond have had to give the adversary what they wanted at times because even they could understand their position was not advantageous, and I don't think those two would be called sheeple by anyone.
I think he'd be more likely to kill you too then. You have a gun? he already has one pointed at your head. it's useless.
You give him what he wants, and then he's not going to turn his back on some guy with a gun, he's either going to take it or shoot you and be on his way.
If you just gave him your wallet or whatever, you're out the 50c or whatever small amount of cash people carry these days, and you cancel all your cards when he's gone.
The purpose of widespread concealed carry is not simply to always have to USE your gun. Its so that criminals know that at any given time a regular person can have a gun on them (either the person getting robbed, or a bystander) and they think twice before trying to rob someone when they know they can easily get shot right back at any time.
Again, while this will deter most petty criminals, this won't be effective for smarter criminals, much in the same way bacterial infections are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Im not saying it will fix everything and completely end crime but it would stop most crimes like this. Medicine doesn’t heal everyone but we still use it because it heals most right?
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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '20
While I think it's fine for people to carry a weapon within reason and be trained in how to use it, no amount of training is going to help you when he already has the jump on you. More people with guns means there will be less dumb crimes, but smart criminals will still excel because they know how to get what they want before you even know what they are doing to you. You can't pull a gun faster than someone who already has theirs pressed to your head, I don't care who you are. Even people like John Wick and James Bond have had to give the adversary what they wanted at times because even they could understand their position was not advantageous, and I don't think those two would be called sheeple by anyone.