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Originally Posted by FN1910
I think I understand the intent of your poll but the way it is worded makes it contradictory to itself.
Your answer to when the store was robbed shows that even though you may have wished that you had a weapon you really didn't need one. If you had a weapon would it have made a difference and what would that difference have been? There is a good chance that if you had a weapon and tried to use it you may have been killed. These are the exact situations that the Brady Bunch uses to demonstrate how unnecessary guns are. There was a robbery at gunpoint, no one was armed, no one was hurt, alls well that ends well, let the police catch the robber.
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this is true, but it could have been different. he could have fired. he had me and the owner's wife, the only two in the store, on the ground facing away from him. he could have very easily killed both of us. i didn't know he wasn't planning to kill us until he left the store. you can never know what "would have happened" until it's over. i would have rather been armed and had the means to NOT be made to lay on the floor. he did not point the weapon during the robbery, so i would have had a good chance at at least surprising him. the man that robbed us was later gunned down by the SWAT team when a store owner he was trying to rob went ballistic on him, in fear of being raped, and he ran. he tried to carjack a man, who WAS armed and fired at him, missing, and the suspect ran away and holed up in a back yard when he heard sirens. after being shot with rubber bullets he got back up, pointed his gun at police, and was promptly filled with lead from fully automatic MP5 fire from about a dozen officers.
me having a gun, in this situation, would have either a)scared him off or b) saved tax dollars in officer pay and our police officers hours of paper work.