London's Homicide Rate Tops NYC's~Due To Stabbings!
When you're an old dino like me limping along while also coping with your whatever is your body pain for the day, you really can't rely on any rusty martial arts skills to protect you from a brawny mugger's/muggers's blades and bludgeons.
Heck, I can't even win a fair fistfight anymore. I could even qualify for handicapped parking if I wanted to.
But libs don't want me to have my pocket pistol.
If given precious little time, I'm to draw my cell, tap out 911, press call and wait to die within the next few seconds I have left.
And I know it's gonna hurt.
Heck, I can't even win a fair fistfight anymore. I could even qualify for handicapped parking if I wanted to.
But libs don't want me to have my pocket pistol.
If given precious little time, I'm to draw my cell, tap out 911, press call and wait to die within the next few seconds I have left.
And I know it's gonna hurt.
This is not actually true. I can tell you from personal experience that they are not "minutes away", they are an hour away.
First the dispatcher takes your 911 call (if you even have time to make one) and then radios that you're in a jam.
Your murderer could be running away by then.
While someone is radioiong for police, they tell the person in danger to stay calm and take no action. Wait for the authorities to act. Not always, sometimes they rightly say you're in the life-or-death situation, so you make the decision about whether to shoot.
Bottom line: You have to do what you have to do.
Marines taught me to shoot to kill but later the Department of Corrections taught me to shoot to stop.
The latter course is better for hopefully not being arrested for defending oneself, though I will aim at center torso mass as I was trained to shoot. .
If the attacker runs away, let him. Don't shoot him in the back. (I could legally back-shoot an escaping convicted felon as a prison officer but I can't as a retired civilian).
If he surrenders, make him lie face-down with his arms and legs spread.
If he's down unarmed and wounded, don't shoot him again. Stay out of his reach. Should a bystander volunteer to apply CPR, let him. Besides it being the right thing to do, it will make you look good.
If he's dead or looks dead, don't touch anything or let anyone else touch anything. It's a crime scene and any physical evidence to be investigated may help you to stay out of criminal court.
Put your gun down when the cops arrive and raise your hands wide open. Shouting "Self defense!" wouldn't hurt, but fully cooperate with all instructions.
The cops here in OKC are usually present in less than five minutes, but they strongly encourage sensible self defense measures. Nice to live where a measure of common sense still exists.
What isn't mentioned in the press is that gun related crime is also going up in the UK. It seems criminals tend to ignore gun control laws. Oh, and acid attacks are increasing as well. I think I've crossed London off my travel list.
Neither is a good conker, though. Think I'll keep an eye out for a cane that's a serous piece of hardwood.
During 1982, corrections trainee me bought a stout oak basher for a baton before it became outlawed for prison work just three years later.
"Basher" is in the back of my Honda Fit hatchback within easy reach in case someone should steal up behind me while unloading groceries or something.
Snatching that up at the start of a strike would be a tad quicker than drawing my pocket pistol perhaps a second too late.
During the 90s, I had my old oak basher plus two nylons (one lost its grommet) in the trunk of a Honda Accord outside Walmart when some crazy talking man approached me while I loaded groceries outside a Walmart.
I was regarding him with a wary eye when he looked into my trunk and saw the three police batons. He stopped jabbering in mid-sentence, commenced to very noticeably tremble and hurried away, leaving me to sigh with relief. Maybe he thought I was Tony Soprano's loan shark or something. But I don't care.
Me dino don't want trouble. I just want to be prepared to handle any.
That's why I'm prepared to pop something aimed at someone's upper torso center mass (the heart) should I be confronted with a threat of being mauled.
Ban me from defending myself with a gun? Me dino got several guns. Surely, gun grabbers should miss finding at least one of them.
Consider the term~ "government efficiency."
He/she needs it for stick ups and/or contract hits) and/or to protect his/her turf (maybe even with hits) and/or to muscle in on turf (also with hits) and/or to push dope and/or whatever racket he/she runs.
Good productive citizens who'd like to have guns to protect themselves and their families do not want to be locked up with such really for real criminals.
Me dino read that when Australia was confiscating guns, it ran ads about how noncompliance can get otherwise good productive citizens raped in prison.
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It is evident that turning their women into curtain hangers does not always keep wives in line.