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Always carry a weapon on you. If you don't want to carry an illegal gun, learn how to use a knife. In close quarters a knife is all you need, just learn how to use it and don't aim for places that will cause fatal injury.
It really is a shame that it's so hard to own a firearm out here, or even a stun gun/cattle prod.
be thankful that you have your life, it could have turned out worse.
Would NOT have happened here in Nevada.
I don't go to my mailbox without my .40 cal on my side.
NYC does not care for your safety. If they did they'd allow you to be armed.
After 40 years of living in the city, I'm glad I left.
Sorry for your misfortune.
Includes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. A negative score (in parentheses) indicates a
composite crime number below the national rate, a positive number is above the national rate.
Not defending these incidents, but they only seem common here because there are 8.3 million people squeezed in this city. The 110,000 square mile state of Nevada barely has more people than the 110 sq mi borough of Queens. (yes, Queens is 1000x smaller than Nevada)
I won't even get into how nonsensical the notion is that if everyone carried a gun there would be less gun violence. Anyone dumb enough to believe that deserves to live in that desert wasteland called Nevada, where people are sprawled out and hardly interact with anyone on a daily basis.
Yup. One only needs to take a glance of the gothamist newsmap to see the impact the parade has on Brooklyn. The areas around Eastern Parkway are very, very active right now.
I was at the parade and they had a boat load of cops on EP and the side streets in Crown Heights and YET..we have still had all of these double/triple shootings and stabbings taking place in the same areas...I even seen a gang of about 30-40 cops just standing around Grand Army Plaza. NYPD you suck!
Also as for the more guns = more crime debate...doesn't Canada and Europe have violent crime rates that are much higher as the US? I know knife crime is a HUGE problem in the UK. Many states with "shall-issue" laws have murder rates at or lower than the national average. I'm sure states like Vermont and Alaska are total blood baths.
Carrying any weapon does not help in such a situation. These guys are usually very quick and attack you in a matter of seconds. My husband and myself were once mugged by knifepoint. The guys were so quick it was surreal. There were 3 or 4 maybe? 2 jumped my husband with a knife at his throat and another pushed me aside trying to grab my handbag. I just screamed and fought back. All within 10-15 seconds? If you had a weapon you would not be able to do anything at that moment in time.
I had a friend who was shot with his own gun during a carjacking about 15 years ago. Sadly, they shot him in his spine and has been in a wheelchair ever since.
Why are people so afraid of guns? Law abiding citizens carrying guns should be no problem at all because hey, believe it or not, if you make them illegal the people who wanna use them for bad things will still get their hands on them and use them.
While we're at it let's ban cars, because those can be used as weapons. And knives, and scissors, and baseball bats.
I won't even get into how nonsensical the notion is that if everyone carried a gun there would be less gun violence. Anyone dumb enough to believe that deserves to live in that desert wasteland called Nevada, where people are sprawled out and hardly interact with anyone on a daily basis.
First of all, your opinion of the state of Nevada has NOTHING to do with this debate.
I don't know where you get your facts from---but I challenge you to answer the question I asked the other anti-gun guy: Suppose you came home and a man had a knife to your wife's throat and you didn't have a gun.
What would you do?
Reason with him?
^^P L E A S E answer that^^
And since your throwing out pointless and useless "facts", allow me to do just the OPPOSITE and throw out some real F A C T S:
The Armed Criminal in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Federal Firearms Offenders study, 1997: National Institute of Justice, Research Report, July 1985,
Department of Justice Buckeyefirearms.org
I was robbed numerous times in train stations. One time there was a cop on the train I got on after I was threatened, felt like a moron for not saying anything.
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