Did anyone happen to catch the news blurb a couple weeks ago where a 73-year old retired Marine who was on vacation in Costa Rica (I think) killed an armed mugger with his bare hands? Mugger holds up a tour group and this guy goes for him, gets him into a chokehold, and punched his ticket.
I understand one of the college instructors at VT walked forward instead of cowering. The news said something about him being a Holocost survivor. He still got killed but maybe that wouldn’t have happened had he not been the only one.
I think the will to act is a lot more important than the tools at hand. A person who isn’t mentally prepared to pull the trigger when they have the chance is a lot better off not carrying. I think that includes more people than it excludes. If you ever watch those reality shows like “Wildest Police Videos” you’ll see that sometimes even an armed police officer facing a threat will turn and run instead of pulling their weapon and shooting it out. Flight or fight. Nobody really knows until they’re there.
