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Originally Posted by nostatic
Yeah, but instead of the hammer loaded is the guy swinging it?
We live in dangerous times...
The reality is I have no interest in stopping crime - that isn't my job, nor am I covered under the law to do so. "Good samaritan" laws are pretty thin most of the time. The only reason to pull a weapon is if you think you or your family is in imminent danger and has no other alternative. Anything short of that will likely get you jail time, and rightly so imho.
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"And rightly so imho"???? Really?
I find it sad that we have been intimidated into being afraid to help one another should we witness a crime in action. Particularly if someone is getting hurt. It absolutely turns my stomach every time I read a story, or see a news report, of someone who gets needlessly hurt because bystanders "don't want to get involved". We are all in this together. It's usually not very hard at all to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
The authorities would like us all to believe it is their job to protect us. The courts have actually ruled otherwise, time and time again, ruling that the police have a "general responsibility" but no specific, individual responsibility if someone falls victim to a crime. Imagine how that one could go, in this lawsuit happy U.S. of A... but I digress. It's the authorities' way of saying they cannot possibly protect us at the critical moment.
Let me ask a couple questions related to DARISC's - how many instances of police officers being at exactly the right place, at exactly the right time to foil a perp in action can anyone show us? Assault, armed robbery, burgalry, whatever. How does that number stack up, when expressed as a percentage of the times they were not at the right place at the right time? Just a hunch, but I bet the number of crimes they stop while actually being committed are statistically insignificant. Even when called to a crime scene. As the sayings go, "when seconds count, they are only minutes away" and "Call a cop; order a pizza - see which one gets there first".