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JimP:

--- Quote ---I just can't see putting myself in danger for some little crime.
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-Dave B


--- Quote ---All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

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-Edmund Burke

I'll side with Mr. Burke on this one, and act accordingly.

People are tired of the hooligans running roughshod over them.


--- Quote ---If everybody started chasing thugs, when the cops did show up, they wouldn't know which gun toter to shoot, and there is a good chance they will shoot the wrong one.
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Provided they only shoot in self defense, like everyone else is supposed to...... no chance of that....  everyone, the Police most especially, seems to have forgotten their Sir Robert Peel:


--- Quote ---The Police are the Public and the Public are the Police.
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Look it up.  Contrast Sir Robert's Principles with the paramilitary police force we have today, calling the Public "civilians" ..... they are more and more miltarized all the time, so it figures, I guess... 

Lorimor:
The thing is even if you do everything right, you can still get killed.  I'm not going to put my life in jeopardy over someone else's property. 

And on a personal note, there seem to be so many willing to get real ugly and very angry over the notion of CCW.  Many are convinced CCW permit holders are simply cop wannabes or they want to be "heroes."  What if my actions saved a high and mighty know-it-all anti-CCW'er?  Wouldn't that piss them off?   

Do they deserve my help?  Aren't they responsible for their own safety?  (As we so rightly tell them?)

And I sure as hell wouldn't (and couldn't) expect them to help pay my legal expenses, now could I?

(Um... yeah, I'm a little vindictive.)

Should a fellow citizen obviously need assistance and it's obvious who the aggressor was, I would intervene, if I could do so and do so with minimal risk but I'm not going to go chasing down some punk after he or she has left the scene. 

But I wouldn't expect any gratitude or thanks.   That's not in the cards in this "Age of The Common Man." 

bkoenig:

--- Quote from: Lorimor on November 06, 2011, 06:58:20 AM ---The thing is even if you do everything right, you can still get killed.  I'm not going to put my life in jeopardy over someone else's property.

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That's my philosophy.  I would assist someone who's in danger of death or bodily harm, but I'm not going to risk my daughter growing up without a father for a purse.

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