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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
You've seen too many American movies. Most thugs don't carry guns. They are so rarely challenged, that they don't have to. Maybe the real gang bangers in American inner cities carry more often, but the kind of hooligans who cause riots and protest the World Bank meetings would run with soiled shorts if ever faced down by an armed citizen. They know cops will only use tear gas and rubber bullets and they are prepared for that.
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One has a different mind set when someone is packin'. I remember an incident in Soho, London. I was sitting at an outdoor cafe with2 collegues late in the evening. A customer got into an agrument with the owner. After shouting, obsenities and eventually food throwing, my collegues and I hit the ground. I thought bullets were going to fly. After the incident, the person next at the next table said to me "you guys are yanks". I acknowledged that if this was Chicago, someone would have been shot.
Knowing the enviroment, you know the limits. It's different in each country.
Rick: what would happen in China? I have been there... Can you do what can be done in the USA or the UK? I don't think so.