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   Nobody on September 9, 2010 at 9:29 am

   Its hard to imag­ine being in that sit­u­a­tion. I think he showed great restraint actu­al­ly. This is anoth­er exam­ple of a gun being used to save lives, pre­vent a crime, and yet who is in jail?

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   Bill510c on September 9, 2010 at 11:49 am

   This makes me sick. Being a New York res­i­dent and work­ing for a law enforce­ment agency I hear these sto­ries all the time. The gun laws in this state and even worse in New York City are absurd. What­ev­er hap­pened to our Con­sti­tu­tion­al rights?

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   MasterPo on September 11, 2010 at 9:23 am

   I was in a sit­u­a­tion some years ago. Not like this, not as extreme, but sim­i­lar where out of the blue I was threat­ened and attacked. I was able to make a quick escape and the sit­u­a­tion end­ed at that.

   BUT…

   All the while it was hap­pen­ing, run­ning through my mind was the thought that if I did defend myself then *I* would most like­ly be arrest­ed, charged with assu­alt if not attempt­ed mur­der, and charged with a hate crime. It would cost me my life’s sav­ings to defend myself in court yet my attack­ers would get all free legal coun­cil and sup­port. Even if I was­n’t charged, charges dropped, or ulti­mate­ly acquit­ted, I would *still* be sued in civ­il court for mil­lions.

   At the very least my name and fam­i­ly would have been dragged through the muck of the news by the usu­al aggi­ta­tors and activists. I would have lost my job, my rep­u­ta­tion, my stand­ing in my life-long com­mu­ni­ty (as well as my wife’s job, rep­u­ta­tion etc) and prob­a­bly would have had to move in pub­lic dis­grace.

   All for defend­ing myself from a total­ly 100% unpro­voked attack.

   Dis­gust­ing.

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     suburban on September 11, 2010 at 5:34 pm

     Some­times it is always bet­ter to retreat…

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       MasterPo on September 12, 2010 at 5:19 pm

       I total­ly agree about retreat­ing.

       My point was that if I was total­ly inno­cent of any wrong doing, lit­er­al­ly just sit­ting there mind­ing my own busi­ness by myself, yet if I had defend­ed myself than *I* would have been the one desto­ryed in court.

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   MasterPo on September 11, 2010 at 9:31 am

   ps- BTW, this sort of thing *may* start hap­pen­ing more and more.

   If you haven’t already heard sev­er­al more police forces in the coun­try have announced lay­offs and there­fore response cut backs. Exam­ple, in Oak­land CA the police announced they will no longer come if you call 911 for a bur­glery, auto theft, or van­dal­ism.

   Going to be inter­est­ing to see how the police, courts, and media han­dle the cas­es where the police by pol­i­cy won’t come to the aid of cit­i­zens and peo­ple defened them­selves and their prop­er­ty.

   Any­one want to take a guess which way it will go? 🙁

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   Nobody on September 12, 2010 at 9:50 am

   The police are not duty bound to pro­tect us any­way. I don’t think a reduc­tion of police response to after-the-fact crimes like rob­bery or van­dal­ism will make a dif­fer­ence in an attack like this one iota. If it made a dif­fer­ence, this would­n’t have hap­pened in the first place! 🙂

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