Interviewing Inmates

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"..60% of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed..."


That means 4 out of 10 criminals would NOT avoid it.

Be careful out there...

-- John D.

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cloudcroft wrote:

"..60% of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed..."


That means 4 out of 10 criminals would NOT avoid it.

Be careful out there...

-- John D.

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No. It means that 4 out of 10 criminals did not admit that they would avoid it.
BIG difference.

Yata hey

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That's not my interpretation, but I hope that at least the 4 out of 10 DO try though...you can't "take a bite out of crime" if they don't try, can you.



-- John D.

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A lot of criminals are on drugs, which will impare their minds, making them unafraid of weapons. I think I experienced that first hand when I saw a guy who was likely a crack head screaming at a gas station cashier.

With concealed carry, you have more if a choice of when to deploy your gun. With open carry, you might have to deploy it immediately. But at least with open carry 60% of criminals are likely to avoid attempting to victimize you. I'll take the 40% and a need to act quickly over the 60% better odds of being attacked, no doubt about it.

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We have to take into account that these interviews are with criminals, not known for being "HONEST". Could we not say that these numbers are "iffy" at best?

We also have to consider the fact that, when not incarcerated, these BG's may be on drugs/alcohol or experiencing withdrawals from drugs, which will impair their judgement (which is already impaired since they choose criminal activity as a career).

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Michigander wrote:

With concealed carry, you have more if a choice of when to deploy your gun. With open carry, you might have to deploy it immediately.

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I'm not sure that is true. I think the data supports that many criminals are on mind altering substances. Many more are scared and rushing and have tunnel vision about the crime. If they are tweaked and scared and rushing around and have tunnel vision about the crime they may not even see me there at all let alone notice that I am carrying a black gun in a black holster on my hip. I also see how many regular people in my daily world do not notice I am carrying when OC or "sloppy CC" where I am printing like Gutenberg with OCD.

I just do not believe that anything resembling a majority of street criminals are going to place me in a situation where they notice my sidearm and now I have to draw and engage in a situation where I would not if I were CC. I'm sure that it has happened on some occassion. I know there are professional, organized thiefs and gangs out there and those guys I think much more likely to take me out or push me into an immediate draw, drop it or die scenario immediately. But then we probably have as much chance of running into those people as a subset of criminals as we have of running into a situation where we need to use lethal force in the first place.

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I agree re: running into real pros.

And we have about the same chance of running into a professional boxer/martial artist/knife-fighter on the street, too, if we get forced into a fistfight. It's much more likely that they'll be average Joes of questionable fighting ability.

Thank God for that.

-- John D.