I've seen too many news reports of people being relieved of their open carry weapon by the bad guy.
Really? I would be interested in interested in seeing all those reports of people being relieved of their open carry weapon by bad guys. I sure haven't seen more than about 1 per year, and some of those are pretty darn sketchy, like "I was standing outside my motel room at 2 am when....."
In my mental rehearsal, the BG(s) enter with their weapons concealed, identify guards or other people with weapons, and target them first. Fact is, in just about any scenario I can think of the baddy has his weapon out and ready to use long before me.
I think the key here is the words "mental rehearsal". Mental rehearsal is fine. But your mental rehearsal just does not play out in real life. In the common convenience store scenarios, real life analysis indicates that the bad guys actually case the place first and wait for an opportunity when the clerk is alone to rob the place.
My task is to survive long enough for them to turn their back on me. In no case do I want to appear as a threat.
By the way, when I state that I think OC is dangerous, etc., and state my reasons for thinking that way, it is not to infer that I know better than anyone else, or that my way is the only way. I understand we all have our own logic for doing the things we do. My bride and I even wash dishes in a different order, her way will never make sense to me and vice versa.
I prefer to base my defensive behavior upon historical evidence of what happens in real life rather than theories created within "mental rehearsals". But each to their own.... I just prefer to present facts rather than theories so that people can make intelligent decisions rather than following blindly theories based upon nothing more than "mental rehearsals" and opinions based upon personal prejudices. For example:
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"In 85% of the robberies which occurred, no customers were present at the inception of the crime and there was not a second clerk in the store. The scenario which developed repeatedly within the data analysis was that a perspective robber would enter the store and browse up and down the ailses until any present customers would leave before attempting the robbery. Of the remaining 15%, a second clerk was present in 8%, and a customer was present in an addition 7% at the inception of the robbery."
Quite a different picture than the robber busting through the door with gun drawn looking for armed persons to shoot first.
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"Whereas gun control proponents often argue that having a gun put people at risk because a criminal will take it away and use it against them, it seems the reality is more often to be the reverse situation. The Cato data contains only
11 stories out of 4,699 where a criminal took a gun away from a defender, but 277 where the intended victim disarmed the bad guy, although the authors acknowledge that these event reports may be printed more frequently due to newsworthiness."
11 out of 4,699 cases of the victim being disarmed by the criminal. Hmmm... guess when you say you hear about all these news stories of guns being taken from open carriers, it must ALL of those 11 out of 4,699, eh? Which is 0.2%. Guess it is a good thing the other 4,688 were carrying concealed?
Again, just separating the myths from the facts here.
