[TERMINATTOR]

Disarming people doesn't work. All it does is create criminal empowerment zones, where the perp is safer. If people there were armed, the creap would likely be dead already, instead of escaped.

Molon Labe!

[Chemist_Geek]

Disarming people doesn't work. All it does is create criminal empowerment zones, where the perp is safer. If people there were armed, the creap would likely be dead already, instead of escaped.

Exactly. Even in City Hall, where there are surely police about, one's own safety is only one's own responsibility.

[Labyrinthos]

If people there were armed, the creap would likely be dead already, instead of escaped.

You must live in Podunk, North Dakota, population 117. Given the population density in New York City, there is a much greater chance that in addition to one dead creep, you would also have a lot of innocent people killed or wounded in the line of fire.