'Stand Your Ground Law'

[MikeP]

Glad you survived your home encounter-Sure sounded like they were after something-most sneak thieves are just looking for easy pickings.

A lot of the reaction to the wannabee carrying a badge involved serious repercussions for misrepresenting or appearing to misrepresent themselvers as LEOs.

When one reads a lot of forums like I do, I actually wonder why there are not more gun incidents from the caped crusader crowd-most of them are typically more mouth than substance, but some are disturbing.

Back in the days when VN Vets were popular badguys, some studies were put forth that guys who actually had used weapons, seen, felt and heard damage done 1st hand were the least likely to to actually resort to random armed mayhem.
Similar to hunters. They see the suffering.
The folks to watch for were the basement commandoes who parade about in elaborate rigs and think up heroic scenarios.
They mostly never saw any blood, heard a bullet hit flesh or saw the reults of that happening.
All a big fantasy.
When Illinois finally opens the license I'll probably get one, but have lived a long time and done some gritty stuff unstrapped. To old for honky tonk brawling and outlived many of the ruffians I ran with.
Just my opinion.

[NoncomRetired]

Originally Posted by MikeP

When Illinois finally opens the license I'll probably get one, but have lived a long time and done some gritty stuff unstrapped. To old for honky tonk brawling and outlived many of the ruffians I ran with.
Just my opinion.

I will also, no longer based on my initial reasons but because once Illinois has an established CC Law, my Florida and my PA will become invalid. I saw the report the other day that Illinois will only accept Missouri CC permits and no one else, which will change sooner or later. The training proposed in the Bill will require more training that any other state requires so I hope a full 49 other state reciprocal acceptance will happen with us.

[Zorba]

Originally Posted by MikeP

When one reads a lot of forums like I do, I actually wonder why there are not more gun incidents from the caped crusader crowd-most of them are typically more mouth than substance, but some are disturbing.

Back in the days when VN Vets were popular badguys, some studies were put forth that guys who actually had used weapons, seen, felt and heard damage done 1st hand were the least likely to to actually resort to random armed mayhem.
Similar to hunters. They see the suffering.
The folks to watch for were the basement commandoes who parade about in elaborate rigs and think up heroic scenarios.
They mostly never saw any blood, heard a bullet hit flesh or saw the reults of that happening.
All a big fantasy.
When Illinois finally opens the license I'll probably get one, but have lived a long time and done some gritty stuff unstrapped. To old for honky tonk brawling and outlived many of the ruffians I ran with.
Just my opinion.

There's a lot of wisdom in this post.