It's a crazy world, carry appropriately
It's a common theme among liberals and liberal government to take away an individuals right of self-protection, and proclaim the best method of dealing with an assault is to "give the assailant what he asks for, and he will leave you alone". This sort of advice in the best of cases is not only counter-intuitive, it fails to recognize that there are people in society who are more than just violent opportunists, they are criminally insane. Case in point:
Man Beheaded on Greyhound Bus
Screaming passengers fled in terror from a Greyhound bus as an unidentified fellow passenger suddenly stabbed a man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and waved the severed head at horrified witnesses standing outside.
"He didn't do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off," said Garnet Caton, 26, a passenger on the Edmonton-to-Winnipeg bus.
Granted, there is very little chance that the victims carrying of a firearm would have allowed him to save himself in this case, but what about other passengers? Would the killer have attempted such an attack had he known there was a probability that other passengers had concealed firearms? Even if he had, wouldn't an alert passenger have been able to stop the attack, possibly saving the victims life? Yes, a lot of "if's", but at least it's a chance.
As people are continually conditioned to allow violent predatory criminals to do as they please, there are fewer out there who possess the mental fortitude to rise up and stand in defense of themselves and their fellow man. If we won't stand to protect ourselves, then who will?
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I'll give up my wallet if it means I don't have to shoot someone. However, I'll shoot someone if it means I don't have to give up my life. Carrying a handgun does not eliminate the ability to give up my wallet, if *I* choose. Rather it gives me more options.
I am in complete agreement, Shane, though that should come as no surprise to you. We are, very much, the masters of our own lives, and the only ones we can reasonably hold accountable or responsible for their outcomes.
Sevesteen, by the same token, just because you have a firearm does not mean you have to shoot someone in order to use it. This is something that is hotly debated back and forth, granted, but a very large number of crimes are stopped simply by the introduction of a firearm into the equation - it does not even need to be fired. However, you are right, you can choose to give up your wallet, if you want to... without the firearm, you still arguably have the choice, but the consequences may be more severe.
I read somewheres that he had made a little snack of him too, after the decapitation.
But Canadians are all unarmed and mere rats in a mad-factory, being experimented upon by "Social Engineers" without an engineering degree but plenty of socio-pathology.
Yeah DirtCrashr, that's a bit of what I was trying to get at. Being a resident in CA, a state that has few CCW holders who are not celebrities or politicians (some overlap there), it sometimes boggles my mind that the crazy liberals in this state can't see how they have made ordinary citizens easy victims for the criminals or crazies. We here are in a smaller way, also experiencing this same moronic social engineering experiment. Had this same thing happened here, I do not doubt a similar outcome.
Sevesteen, I am not calling for everyone who is robbed to shoot their attacker. I just want myself and others around me to have the ability to make that judgment call. As of now, we are almost completely powerless to resist.