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In reply to the discussion: If i am a teacher with a CCW and "a good guy with a gun" small enough to conceal [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Police officer spend only a tiny amount of that six months on firearms training. They spend it on studying law, (kind of hard to enforce the law if you don't know the law), arrest procedures, search and seizure, how to write a report, how to drive, how criminals operate, etc.
Most criminals desire to commit their crime, usually robbery, and then escape. To do that they will have to go through several steps. First they will have to select the victim. They will choose one that they feel completely confident that they can subdue. Often they will look for a person who is oblivious to his surrounds so they can surprise him. And of course, they will look for weaker people.
Then the criminal will try to isolate the victim. If the intended victim is alert and observes that he is being isolated, or boxed in, then he has time to get ready. (NO. YOU DON'T DRAW THE GUN YET.) You clear the path to the gun, but still keep it concealed. Most street criminals will observe the "clearing the path" move and will abort their attack. There are lots of good videos on the subject, and they are not John Wayne-ish.
Guns can't be uninvented. So your wish to eliminate them from the Earth is nothing more than a fantasy. And the murder rate for the medieval period was very high.
No one here claims that a gun on their person will enable them to defend against ANY violence. But it will damn sure enable a person to defend against much violence. I choose not to be a helpless victim.