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In reply to the discussion: The grocery store, the gun, and my free speech rights [View all]hunter
(38,240 posts)Knowing the manager and the cops he is friendly with, they might find prying a gun out of cold dead fingers acceptable terms.
Seriously, the only people who carry guns in our city are cops and gangsters. And too many of the gangsters are fourteen and fifteen year old idiots who can't shoot straight.
My wife sees young gangsters who've been shot, and in another city my sister scrapes them off of the streets, and invariably these kids are surprised how bad it hurts to get shot or that they are not dead, except when they are dead.
Carrying a gun does not protect you from idiots like this. They don't give a shit. Odds are if you are caught in the crossfire you won't even know what's happened when you are bleeding on the ground and the dip-shit shooters have run off or driven away.
I've talked to war veterans too. Usually shooting is a surprise that's over a second or two after it starts.
It's never like the movies. No drama, no music, no slow motion, just "bang-bang-blood."
I have a friend who has never gotten over killing the Vietnamese kid who shot him. It got worse for him when his own kid was a teenager, same age as the kid he killed.