They do not expect people will defend themselves.
I want to read more of these stories. Concealed carry for every law abiding citizen.
Why don’t they want us fighting back ? (rhetorical)
These stories should be headlines in the local press as object lessons on the subject of dangerous occupations.
Science fiction writer A.E. van Vogt in the Weapon Shops of Isher (1941) wrote:
The right to bear arms is the right to be free.
Charles Haywood wrote in a retrospective review: Feb.16, 2017:
If you are not armed, you are always wholly at the mercy of tyrants. Who can argue with such a truism? A lot of people, actually. For the phrase does not, in fact, echo down the ages of Man. It dates only to 1941, when this book, a now obscure science fiction classic, was first published—and the principle itself is not much older.