[email protected] (G. Focker) wrote in message
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> Tom Kunich is probably closer to right with the stats (yeah Tom, that killed me)than me, I'm
> basing my opinion on where I work, what I've seen / done and so on, not national stats
> collected by others, so I'll be the first to admit that my view is from only one angle, and a
> jaded one at that.
The point is that anyone that uses a gun to protect themselves these days WILL NOT call the police
unless it is absolutely necessary. Why is that? Because many police and a majority of the DA's will
try to prosecute them on any possible grounds.
For instance, a friend of mine owned a gas station in Oakland, CA, and went in late at night to pick
up the receipts at closing time. As he entered the station he noted that his employee was not in the
office and the door to the station was open. He walked around back thinking to find the employee
turning off the air or something and there he found his employee laying in a pool of blood. As he
pulled out his .45 (Oakland doesn't allow licenses to carry on ANY grounds but he had an Alameda
County license to carry) a large man started running at him carrying a water pipe. He barely got the
gun up in time and shot what turned out to be a student from the local high school in the leg,
dropping him in his tracks as .45's are wont to do. The police made out a report and the DA began
filing all sorts of charges against him which he had to defend against despite the evidence of an
employee that was assaulted and seriously injured by this thug. He was then sued by the parents of
the thug who claimed that he was a football star who would never be able to run again. So trying to
protect his own life and that of an employee with a fractured skull he ended up losing his gas
station to the legal costs to defend himself in court.
Gee, I'd sure be right there to call the cops if I just chased away some thug by brandishing a gun.
And I'd bet that you would do exactly the same thing.
So, no, your stats are only from those cases where there was a bad outcome and don't contain any of
the cases where a homeowner brandished a gun and frightened away a burglar or whatever. And yes,
that makes your police stats quite inaccurate and there are plenty of studies to show that. And a
couple of books as well.
Oh, BTW, before he lost the station his new employee was assaulted with intent to murder again. The
employee was big enough and fast enough to save his own life and capture the thug - who turned out
to be a member and the lead to the solution of the Zebra Murders.
As I said before, although I own guns I never carry them because I'm big enough to take care of
myself. But many people aren't.
I expect that if Dan Connelly wanted to carry a pistol on him if he regularly carried large sums of
money that it wouldn't be any of my business. The implication of the Liberals that anyone that
carries a gun is up to no good is nothing but propaganda.
