reply to post by Runaway1977
No a gun does not make you bullet proof. However, let us look at the situation.
Two men aproached her home late at night dressed in dark clothes. They did not want to be seen or heard. One man pulled out a .25 caliber pistol. (A
pistol that has a history of being stopped by heavy clothing and failing to cause death even when fired directly in to the head.) The second guy never
showed that he had a shotgun.
They targeted a quiet residential street known to be home to many college students. They were looking for easy unarmed targets. They were also trying
to avoid detection. This was because both men were hardened criminals. However, one had found out hat robbing college students was safer than your
usual breaking and entering or robbery.
From my research and experience I believe a gun would have greatly helped Eve Carson. The guy that pulled the gun to kidnap her was the "alpha." He
was the agressor with previous gun play experience. The other guy was a two bit hood, a simple breaking and entering type of guy. If Eve Carson had
shot the first guy chances are the second one would have fled. They were looking for simple targets. The second guy would not have wanted to draw
excessive attention and get caught.
That would have left Eve Carson facing one shooter that was carrying an underpowered hand gun. The odds would have been in her favor. She most likely
would have been wounded. However, today we would be talking about the UNC Student Body President that was badly wounded in an attempted kidnapping.
Instead today we talk about the murdered UNC Student Body President.
Eve Carson could have had a fighting chance that night. However, the legislatures and campuses have given in to emotional pandering. The justice
system failed to do their job in the past. Two criminals that were supposed to be locked up were free. The system told Eve and tens of thousands of
students to depend on them. Then they betrayed them all by failing to do their job. Now, people demand the right to protect their life. All the while
people on the sidelines demean them and tell them to depend on the police.
Yeah, keep telling the adults in college to roll over and take it. It has worked out so far.
Of course for me, I rather die on my feet than begging for my life in the middle of the street. I rather die going for the gun beside my bed than with
tear stained cheeks, in my pajamas, in full public view. I rather die with dignity and resolve than be forced to crawl for the enrichment of some
predator that cares less about my life than he does the rims on his car.
There are two things from Marko Kloos' essay
Give Them Nothing that
strike a chord with me.
There are people in this world to whom you’re not a human being. They don’t want to be respected by you. They don’t care about you–they’re
not even really aware of you. They only care about the food you represent, the money that’s in your pocket. You’re not a person to them, but an
obstacle. You’re just in the way of the reward, like a wrapper around a candy bar, and these people are willing to discard you just like that
wrapper in order to get what they want...
No, the appropriate response to violence is not submission. Submission encourages the thugs, and it gives them absolutely no incentive to consider a
career change. When you preach submission, you only guarantee more of the behavior that takes advantage of that submission. The only appropriate
response to violence is white-hot anger. When someone sticks a gun in your face and threatens to kill you over the contents of your wallet or your
register, your response ought to be rage. The very thought of some low-life thug threatening to snuff you out and make your children orphans for no
reason other than the money you carry ought to make you furious.
And then you need to put that fury to good use. Yield nothing, not an inch, not a penny, not a hair on your head, without fighting for it tooth and
nail. Do your level best to ensure that if someone has to end up in a body bag this hour, it won’t be your body in that bag. And even if it should
happen to be your turn to take your seat in Valhalla, you might as well put your best effort into making sure that you arrive there with your attacker
in a firm headlock.
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