CCW and gun save Pokeman Go players

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Thought this was a game for nerds. Didn't expect one to have a CCW permit. Good for them, the robbers were obviously willing to kill them. And I thought guns and CCW were never used to save lives. Another statement is when people say, "They were only robbing them." Well, plenty of people have been unintentionally killed during a robbery.





http://time.com/4423062/pokemon-go-gun-shooting-las-vegas/





Gunman Shot After Trying to Rob Pokémon Go Players

Rosalie Chan @rosaliechan17 July 25, 2016

An armed man was shot after he and an accomplice tried to rob a group of people playing Pokémon Go at a Las Vegas park.

A group of six people were at Big League Dreams park after 4 a.m. Monday playing the game when the man and a driver came up in an SUV and demanded their possessions at gunpoint, according to police. A player who has a concealed weapons permit pulled out his gun, and both sides exchanged fire, officials said.
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I brought my carry gun to go Pokemon hunting in a park tonight. There may not be a huge overlap between CCW holders and Pokemon players, but they're not mutually exclusive...


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Thought this was a game for nerds.
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Nerds need guns too, perhaps even more than non-nerds. But what defines a nerd?

While I find the notion of the game completely stupid and it's something I'd never ever want to do, because I find exploring the outdoors and real world rewarding enough, perhaps characterizing people who choose a form of entertainment that you don't choose as "nerds" is a slightly close minded perspective, and irrelevant to the overall topic of self defense rights, and concealed carry culture.
 
I took a CCW class in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, and the former cop who taught it told us that "you just assume that everybody in Las Vegas is carrying a gun". The bad guys in this case appear to have forgotten this fact.

Another observation: it is so hot in Vegas during the day this time of year that the ONLY reasonable time to be outdoors (looking for Pokemon tokens or otherwise) is at night.
 
With a game like this that causes inherent danger for people grouping up and being vulnerable it's a great thing that people carry for defense.

Today more than ever criminals have more firearms than law abiding citizens.

Sad story, however great reminder that many people carry good and bad!
 
I should have been more specific. My statement was in regards to out in public. Also, your info is true but homicide rates and stats for ownership legal or illegal differ. Illegal ownership is hard to pinpoint. But compare concealed licensed citizens in a state to criminal possession it may be different
 
Aim1 said:
Thought this was a game for nerds. Didn't expect one to have a CCW permit.
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What?

Why not? :confused:

Who says video games, let alone free mobile app games, are for "nerds"?

And who says "nerds" don't take measures to defend themselves?

I know a lot of gun guns who play the game, both themselves and with their kids.

Stonecloud said:
Today more than ever criminals have more firearms than law abiding citizens.
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I disagree.

I very strongly disagree.

Have you noticed the HUGE trend in recent years/decades for shall-issue carry laws? I would bet real money that the ratio of law abiding/criminals who are carrying guns is weighted far more towards the law abiding side now than in the past.
 
I didn't mean in general but in public, and in states like NY where people can't legally carry in the city but criminals regularly do carry firearms it's a different case.
That's just my opinion and I respect all others wasn't trying to start a debate :cool:
 
Stonecloud said:
I didn't mean in general but in public, and in states like NY where people can't legally carry in the city but criminals regularly do carry firearms it's a different case.
That's just my opinion and I respect all others wasn't trying to start a debate :cool:
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It's still basically guaranteed that today more than ever there are more law abiding citizens carrying (relative to criminals) than ever before. Plus this didn't happen in New York.
 
Aim1 said:
Thought this was a game for nerds. Didn't expect one to have a CCW permit.
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Don't want to continue to beat a dead horse, but...yeah I mean what's this concept of who a "gun owner" is, and what they look like or act like? Why wouldn't a nerd who plays a game on their phone have a CCW permit necessarily?

This isn't just about you, but just a general attitude/stereotype of who gun owners and CCW permit holders are. They're anyone and everyone.
 
luzyfuerza said:
I took a CCW class in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, and the former cop who taught it told us that "you just assume that everybody in Las Vegas is carrying a gun". The bad guys in this case appear to have forgotten this fact.

Another observation: it is so hot in Vegas during the day this time of year that the ONLY reasonable time to be outdoors (looking for Pokemon tokens or otherwise) is at night.
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You're saying they were told this in their CCW class and forgot it?
 
I took a CCW class in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, and the former cop who taught it told us that "you just assume that everybody in Las Vegas is carrying a gun". The bad guys in this case appear to have forgotten this fact.
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Well, it is an assumption, not a fact. And NO, not everybody in Las Vegas is carrying a gun. That is a fact, not an assumption.

It's still basically guaranteed that today more than ever there are more law abiding citizens carrying (relative to criminals) than ever before.
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Sure, but the number of armed good guys is still terribly low.
 
Completely agree. The number is still terribly low. We have to keep working to increase the good guy numbers.

Apathy is a disease. Gotta try for a cure! :D
 
Wander the mean streets of Vegas at 4AM to play a video game, or die of heat stroke playing Riddick...tough call.

Illegal ownership is hard to pinpoint.
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'Pinpoint' implies a small quantity in a vast field, as opposed to an overwhelming majority; I think you meant to phrase that "Legal ownership is hard to pinpoint in violent crimes where guns are used" --even then, the fraction of criminal gun owners that don't already have rap sheets that disqualify them (let alone clean rap sheets) at the time of an incident is pretty small.

TCB
 
stonecutter2 said:
Don't want to continue to beat a dead horse, but...yeah I mean what's this concept of who a "gun owner" is, and what they look like or act like? Why wouldn't a nerd who plays a game on their phone have a CCW permit necessarily?

This isn't just about you, but just a general attitude/stereotype of who gun owners and CCW permit holders are. They're anyone and everyone.
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Actually, I'd argue it goes even further. Not to detract from your "everyone" point, but...

CCW permit holders tend to be somewhat higher on the affluence scale. I'm not saying rich but if nothing else you need to be able to afford the gun, licence, etc.

People who own a phone that can play Pokemon Go tend to be somewhat higher on the affluence scale. I'm not saying rich but if nothing else you need to be able to afford the data plan, phone, etc.

That means a Pokemon Go player is more likely than average to have a CHL, or to have parents with a CHL (if they aren't old enough themselves).
 
CZ-75B, I choose you!

Hmm, wonder how much ammo could be stored inside a Pokéball, it appears to use some form of teleporter/transporter technology, how else could an animal fit inside a device the size of a baseball/softball.....
 
Glock used Primer Impact! It's super effective!

Hmm, wonder how much ammo could be stored inside a Pokéball, it appears to use some form of teleporter/transporter technology, how else could an animal fit inside a device the size of a baseball/softball.....
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The common theories are matter-to-energy/data conversion, or a sort of dimensional compression or pocket dimensions, and then the whole deal is converted to data. Considering excess pokemon are stored in a computer system.

Ahem. Asides, um, aside, I was ten or twelve when the game came out. The perfect age for the Gameboy and target audience. I grew up with it.

I also grew up knowing and increasingly interested in firearms.

And since I'm currently stuck on foot, bike, and the bus, Pokemon Go is a way to kill time between points A and B and, when it's not going to work where I can't carry, I'll often have my little source of nostalgia in one pocket and security in the other.
 
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