A Horrible Crime

2seaoat wrote:SO, you have said before and are saying it now, that those of us who carry are living in fear. Do you believe that if either Christian or Newsome had been armed that they would have been as afraid then as they were later on while they were being tortured by this animals. Call me afraid and living in fear if you want, but I will at least have a chance to take out 1 or 2 of them before they do me.

You may think that would be the case, but I have been jumped twice.   I never saw it coming, and when the three people had me on the ground pounding the snot out of me.........I was not getting to any gun like I was John Wayne, and the second time at a party somebody left the basement on a public street and slammed the door too hard and broke the glass.   A fellow with a knife was chasing my friend around a car when they came to get me, and I go out and stand in between the rabbit and the hound explaining that we had a lease on the building and would be making an insurance claim......the knife was to my throat before I could have ever got my concealed weapon........nope.....my guess somebody was getting real messed up regardless of conceal and carry, and my experience with predators is they can smell an opportunity.....they can also smell a threat and avoid the same.   Afraid and armed does not solve the problem.   Putting violent criminals behind bars and monitoring them with enough personnel when they are released is a solution.

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2seaoat wrote:SO, you have said before and are saying it now, that those of us who carry are living in fear. Do you believe that if either Christian or Newsome had been armed that they would have been as afraid then as they were later on while they were being tortured by this animals. Call me afraid and living in fear if you want, but I will at least have a chance to take out 1 or 2 of them before they do me.

You may think that would be the case, but I have been jumped twice.   I never saw it coming, and when the three people had me on the ground pounding the snot out of me.........I was not getting to any gun like I was John Wayne, and the second time at a party somebody left the basement on a public street and slammed the door too hard and broke the glass.   A fellow with a knife was chasing my friend around a car when they came to get me, and I go out and stand in between the rabbit and the hound explaining that we had a lease on the building and would be making an insurance claim......the knife was to my throat before I could have ever got my concealed weapon........nope.....my guess somebody was getting real messed up regardless of conceal and carry, and my experience with predators is they can smell an opportunity.....they can also smell a threat and avoid the same.   Afraid and armed does not solve the problem.   Putting violent criminals behind bars and monitoring them with enough personnel when they are released is a solution.

I'm not sure at what is wrong with your mind, perhaps you are suffering from extreme guilt from your life and in some way are trying to go out like a gentle flower.  

either way, putting the violent criminals in the ground when they attack you is the best solution. Is it perfect, no. But it works many times.

2seaoat wrote:The British to this day have most of their LEO without guns.   They realize the need for guns, but do not put a gun on every Barney.....they are civilized, and a lot less of the stuff you have posted showing police abuses would happen if our police officers had to be more Andy like.

Dreamsglore wrote:http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/may/19/horror-of-christiannewsom-killings-in-focus/

I don't know why they weren't sentenced to death.