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This is why people must be allowed to carry a gun on their person at all times.
It probably would not help. It would be a blitz attack where you would have little time to react. Google Las Vegas Cici's Walmart. All three victims were armed. They just didn't see it coming.
This is why people must be allowed to carry a gun on their person at all times.
I honestly don't think it would help. I agree with the poster who said you'd never see them coming until they had already grabbed you. Like that poor soldier in London killed crossing the street, they just ran up behind him and started stabbing. People don't walk around in the daytime expecting trouble, so the terrorists have a huge advantage IMO.
I'll take authorities doing their job, making arrests before it gets to streets.
Generally speaking, the authorities are called after the crime to arrest and prosecute the criminals.
If my head is sawed off, having them arrested really doesn't do much for me.
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Originally Posted by thefragile
That post read as if simply carrying a gun would somehow eliminate this problem. It doesn't.
I'll agree that carrying a gun will not eliminate this problem; however, it could potentially keep a person from being a victim of such a problem.
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Originally Posted by ocnjgirl
I honestly don't think it would help. I agree with the poster who said you'd never see them coming until they had already grabbed you. Like that poor soldier in London killed crossing the street, they just ran up behind him and started stabbing. People don't walk around in the daytime expecting trouble, so the terrorists have a huge advantage IMO.
You'd NEVER see them coming?
Wow, it they are that good, why are we even trying to stop them when we obviously can't.
If you believe you would never see them coming, well, you can choose to do nothing.
I believe I might see them coming, and if so, I'd like to have a gun.
LOL: United States here, your close allies in understanding that terror must be confronted, distasteful though that may be to prissy little Ivy League professors embarrassed about the use of hard power. Which means firebombing, shooting dead, and consigning corrupt 7th Century ideologies to the dustbin of history, civilization-to-civilization.
In my country, wandering around in crowds and on the street in major cities without one or more layers of self-defense is far-Left insanity, and/or simply not too bright. Thank God that state by state, we have different options up to and including legal, licensed handguns. Or, as I call the latter, "emergency escape devices." Responsible adults should understand at least rudimentary self-defense, one would think.
In my experience, unfortunately personal violence tends to explode quickly. Blitz attacks. If there is time, a faceful of pepper spray and/or brass knuckles to your opponent's sweetmeats is a stalling tactic that buys you seconds. Seconds you should be using to run away. Anywhere away. Which diffuses the trouble, 9/10 times.
Food for thought, before and if you choose to disarm yourselves fully. If that is a possibility. We've proven pretty conclusively here that relying on the "police" for anything is just dumb. They're like a monster: awaken it, it may take a big bite from everyone but may serve your purposes if unleashed on the right enemy in the right way. The trouble is getting it to move for you. Good luck with that.
Trembling in fear won't help you. Exposing and confronting ignorant, 7th Century anti-Christian, anti-liberty, anti-civilization barbarism wherever it is seen WILL.
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