camslam
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Good Lord, if I read one more post about he shouldn't have been in Detroit at 9 pm getting groceries again, I'm going to flip. :banghead:
HE WAS BUYING GROCERIES for pete sakes. He lives in Detroit. Would you rather he drive 30 minutes to buy them somewhere else? Judas Priest.
Not everyone is blessed to live in a perfect little small town where every person knows your name and nobody needs to lock their doors.
Yes, he could have been more prepared and alert, but sometimes that doesn't even matter. There are plenty of examples of people just minding their own business and they simply happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yes, it happens even in "SAFE" places, if you can imagine that. The only thing you can count on is some "well armed, super informed, deadly lethal, highly judicious, know it all on all subjects related to guns, High Road Jedi" will make sure everyone knows the guy involved was an idiot for even putting himself in that position in the first place.
I say the guy is lucky he didn't get killed. He did the right thing complying and begging/hoping that nothing more was done to him. He wasn't armed, he wasn't prepared, and the only thing that he could have done different was be more aware and more prepared. I.e. - know what is around you, be armed so that you can do something about it if needed.
Even if you had your car armed to a T, what would it have mattered. I'm all for common sense, and given that I have had a situation that was similar, (parking lot of a grocery store, 9:45 pm, 2 minority males, approach me and request I buy something from them, after learning I am not interested, proceed to hastle me and try to verbally intimidate and threaten), I would say being forceful, prepared, and alert is your best defense to most threats.
But EVERY SINGLE SITUATION IS DIFFERENT, and until you are there, who knows what will happen, who will be involved, where it will go down, and what the potential risks and consequences are. So do your best to be alert and prepared.
HE WAS BUYING GROCERIES for pete sakes. He lives in Detroit. Would you rather he drive 30 minutes to buy them somewhere else? Judas Priest.
Not everyone is blessed to live in a perfect little small town where every person knows your name and nobody needs to lock their doors.
Yes, he could have been more prepared and alert, but sometimes that doesn't even matter. There are plenty of examples of people just minding their own business and they simply happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yes, it happens even in "SAFE" places, if you can imagine that. The only thing you can count on is some "well armed, super informed, deadly lethal, highly judicious, know it all on all subjects related to guns, High Road Jedi" will make sure everyone knows the guy involved was an idiot for even putting himself in that position in the first place.
I say the guy is lucky he didn't get killed. He did the right thing complying and begging/hoping that nothing more was done to him. He wasn't armed, he wasn't prepared, and the only thing that he could have done different was be more aware and more prepared. I.e. - know what is around you, be armed so that you can do something about it if needed.
Even if you had your car armed to a T, what would it have mattered. I'm all for common sense, and given that I have had a situation that was similar, (parking lot of a grocery store, 9:45 pm, 2 minority males, approach me and request I buy something from them, after learning I am not interested, proceed to hastle me and try to verbally intimidate and threaten), I would say being forceful, prepared, and alert is your best defense to most threats.
But EVERY SINGLE SITUATION IS DIFFERENT, and until you are there, who knows what will happen, who will be involved, where it will go down, and what the potential risks and consequences are. So do your best to be alert and prepared.