Posted on 11/21/2014 3:38:53 PM PST by marktwain
>>Your odds of surviving a gunfight are likely better than your odds of surviving being restrained by a criminal.
Many people forget one of the important rules of a gunfight (or knife fight): “I’ve been shot (stabbed), but I am not dead. Keep fighting!” The corollary is “Just because they might get a shot off does not mean that you surrender!”
Steal much?
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/11/il-bakery-shootout-no-restraints-3064804.html
Great source, too. Mmm hmmm.
Why are you posting a link to a site that stole the story from gunwatch.com?
Shoots first, asks questions later.
The dates say that the other site had it first.
Am I mistaken?
©2014 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
Link to Gun Watch
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/11/il-bakery-shootout-no-restraints-3064804.html
The beforeitsnews site attributes the story to the gunwatch.com site. Did you even read the article there or did you just go by the date?
My bad.
Oh well.. bloggers steal stuff.
That’s “research” for them.
Beforeitsnews lists Dean’s site as the source. He’s a good guy HG and posts lots of great gun related articles.
Doesn’t excerpt either.
Oh well.. bloggers steal stuff.
Thats research for them.
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Yep that’s for sure.
The dates at Gun Watch are a day ahead because it runs on Australian time.
You falsely accuse a fellow FReeper of stealing and all you can say is “My bad”? Pretty pathetic excuse for what should have been an apology.
Would an apology remove my assumption?
Nope.
I don't trust blogs and I'm not sorry for that.
I had a scumbag pull a gun on me. (Actually three times, but this story only addresses the first time when I was 17.)
My reaction was prompt and violent. I took the gun away from him, picked him up by the throat, and pinned him against a wall.
After he wetted himself AND I discovered the gun was a replica, I let him go (post some thrashing).
That said, if I had not done so, I do not want to think what might have happened.
Incidentally, it was a white trash punk. Heard a few years later that he managed to get himself shot dead.
The moral of the story: Resist. Violently. After all, I’m still here to tell this story. He isn’t.
All well and good, 'gunner, but marktwains posts here speak for themselves. Belly up and say you're sorry.
I would add an important point that supports this argument.
“Resistance significantly increases degree of difficulty.”
Robbing or otherwise oppressing someone is not easy for all sorts of reasons. Because of this, the robber or oppressor will often actively demand compliance. If they don’t get it, even by passively refusing their demands, what they are trying to do becomes harder.
Some experienced, professional muggers do not even present a weapon, nor are they armed. They count on their appearance to be so intimidating that they can just ask someone for their wallet, and as often as not, that person will just hand it to them. But if they refuse, the mugger just walks away. They grasp the problem.
But if the majority do not get compliance, they try to force compliance. And this is where active resistance radically increases the degree of difficulty of what they are trying to do. It becomes not just harder, but often insurmountably hard.
First of all, they are not doing what they want to do. Instead they are trying to shepherd people, and while the clock is ticking. If there are several people, they have to pay attention to all of them, as well as watching the doors, listening for sirens, and aware that the police may be on their way. Oh yes, and rob or whatever.
Their efforts at restraint at this point are just as likely as not a panic response instead of a plan.
Somebody in the room with concealed carry raises their degree of difficulty to astounding levels. With that, the robber is almost certainly going to lose, and lose big.
As a concealed carry holder, instead of immediately opening fire, you might be able to actually plan on maximizing your defense. Things like moving behind cover or at least concealment, getting the optimal firing angle while trying to avoid hitting others in the background, or conversely using one robber as cover from another robber. And making sure there is a round in the chamber and the safety is off.
Your resistance to restraint is making the robbers degree of difficulty near impossible.
“Would an apology remove my assumption?”
It would remove the assumption that you’re a rude jerk, at least for me.
Probably more than a few others as well.
Absolutely true.
marktwain puts tons of effort into posting gun rights articles from all across America and I look forward to them here on FreeRepublic.
Judgemental Eeyores, not so much.
“As a concealed carry holder, instead of immediately opening fire, you might be able to actually plan on maximizing your defense. Things like moving behind cover or at least concealment, getting the optimal firing angle while trying to avoid hitting others in the background, or conversely using one robber as cover from another robber. And making sure there is a round in the chamber and the safety is off.”
You make some excellent points that bear repeating.
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