MachIVshooter
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If the car had not been running he may have shot him And taken the keys off the body.
It's Denver, not Detroit. The crook was waiting for an easy target. He asked about a kid, and looked and asked again when he didn't believe the answer. The gun came out to threaten the OP when the theif realized the he wasn't giving up so easily, but he issued a verbal threat rather than pulling the trigger. Sounds to me like he didn't want blood on his hands.
We have our problems here, but people being killed in car jackings is very rare. Most homicides are gang-on-gang or very personal ones that happen in the suburbs. Armed robberies and the like that result in a dead victim are few and far between.
I'm about 35 miles from the city, but used to spend a fair amount of time downtown in the wee hours. I never feared for my safety.
I very seriously doubt there are any statistics that Show a running car has anything to do with someone pulling a gun on you.
Probably not, but there are for unattended running cars being stolen. Denver will even issue tickets for "puffing"