For an average citizen, I suppose the odds of such an encounter are small and the odds that the armed criminal intends to kill or wishes to kill, are even smaller. But it occurs and probably increasingly and there is none but ourselves to provide for those occasions.
It’s more critical I think, that the government understands that it confronts an armed population; there is a cogent reason no government in history has ever tolerated that any longer than it had to…
NOTE: The model holding the knife seems unfamiliar with its use as a weapon.
The moment someone is willing to use the immediate threat of death upon another person to get what they want, you have to assume their intentions are for the worst.
It is exactly what people for gun control fail to believe could happen to them.
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For an average citizen, I suppose the odds of such an encounter are small and the odds that the armed criminal intends to kill or wishes to kill, are even smaller. But it occurs and probably increasingly and there is none but ourselves to provide for those occasions.
It’s more critical I think, that the government understands that it confronts an armed population; there is a cogent reason no government in history has ever tolerated that any longer than it had to…
NOTE: The model holding the knife seems unfamiliar with its use as a weapon.
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The moment someone is willing to use the immediate threat of death upon another person to get what they want, you have to assume their intentions are for the worst.
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