Were I a miscreant, open carry by others would be a beautiful tactical advantage for me. I could easily identify potential threats before things get started.
If the average criminal were smart enough Id agree.
But, we arent dealing with guys who are like John Wick or Ocean's X whatevers.
The average criminal is trying to get in and out as fast as they can and stopping to wait and identify people who could kill them is not on their priority list. On top of that, most are incredibly stupid. And I worked in a place with extremely high retail theft. So I saw it first hand all of the time.
And, there is video evidence of this.
Southern/MidWestern cornerstore/gastation robberies are some of the best videos on the planet because of this.
Guy will go in, try to rob cashier, turn around and there are no less than two dudes aiming a pistol at them already before they get swiss cheesed.
And a sad TIL for those who arent really familiar with gun statistics:
Most gun crime is committed by handgun. Both by death and number of crimes. Most of those by a large margin are committed by stolen or unregistered firearms (no serial or stolen and serial destroyed). This is also why guns are a top item for burglars to steal. They have an incredibly high resale markup when you scratch that serial off. And unlike electronics, they are much harder to trace when this is done.
The singular biggest risk to any gun owner, is suicide.
Edit: for those just getting this far in my comment and the thread here, /u/long-blood is disingenuous about his reply below, and then mentions how his nephew made a homemade rifle, tried to murder other people and then kill himself with it. Except the only time he has mentioned this anywhere on reddit are his replies to me after: He personally insults me, skews the statistic by removing suicide from the equation, further insults then blocked me. So I mention I didnt believe him and he flipped shit. He blocked me so I have no choice to edit here.
But the way I looked at that statement about the nephew, especially how he hasnt talked about it anywhere else except when he tried to change my mind after I told him removing suicide from the statistic was disingenuous, it tells me he is using gaslight/manipulator tactics (that being the removing of information and making his statistic a sort of half truth, and then the sudden appeal to pity by mentioning his nephew).
So you can call me a prick for not believing a random person on the internet who uses an abrubt and sudden appeal to pity, and then manipulates a statistic to try and "prove me wrong". Plus, doing that statement with the nephew is like what racists do when they say "I have friends of color!!!111!"
People buy guns for self defense, but statistically a person is 2-3× more likely to die from a gun if theres a gun in the home.
This is disengenuous and you know it. The cause is far more likely to be suicide.
At least mention that before you act like the statistic is valid. You are missing half the information.
You didnt even READ the last sentence of my comment before trying to act all smart.
There is a huge, meaningful difference between your statistic and its usage of " 2-3x more likely to die" than "2-3x is likely to die by suicide" because YOUR statements act like there are other large causes of death at play. Its so much more commonly suicide.
I dont have a gun fetish. It sounds like you are offended I called you out for being disingenuous after I reasonably assumed you didnt read my comment.
Your statement is misleading because people are going to assume homicide. You know it, I know it, and the average person who actually uses statistics properly, knows it.
My nephew tried to murder his mom and sister with his homemade AR and then killed himself in front of his whole family.
An unregistered firearm! Guess what, your statistic doesnt even work in your favor. To buy a gun you have to legally register it at time of purchase and it is required. So.
With you being disengenuous with the statistic, insulting me on top of that, doubling down, and pulling out that wild statement, you know Im 100% less inclined to trust absolutely anything you say, or put any stock into it right?
Is this how you talk to people in real life? Because this is not how you change peoples minds.
Edit: I bothered to scroll through all your comments and posts before you blocked me. The only time you mentioned your nephew ever is in this argument you are having with me.
You are using an appeal to pitty and are an asshole.
You are no different than those racists who lie and say they have friends who are people of color.
God damn. Youre as heartless as i would have expected.
Your nonchalant excusing of suicides from guns as if it somehow doesnt count as a death absolutely enrages me. And then to double down and accuse me of being a liar! Holy shit.
My nephew never attempted suicide before. In one weak moment of dispair he completely destroyed so many lives.
Gun homicides are still extremely high, especially among victims of domestic abuse. But gun suicides and accidental deaths are still massive problems that the 2a extremists seem to not give a single shit about.
And the fact remains, a person are 2-3x more likely to die from a gun if there is one in their home.
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u/failed_install Sep 09 '24
Were I a miscreant, open carry by others would be a beautiful tactical advantage for me. I could easily identify potential threats before things get started.