The point of this post is to raise awareness of how many dangerous people are walking side by side with us, every day in every town in the US, which is not as safe as we think. Here is link of a guy who punched a lady for not giving up her seat on a bus. My nearby small town police blotter shows several incidents of of violence every week. My thought is we need to alert the ladies and the little people to the risk they face, bad guys hurt big guys too, just not very often. One of my degrees in a masters in criminal justice where I studied why bad guys are bad. Really? You need to study that? Like the guy who punched the lady, some people are just a POS. And the increase in meth and fentanyl and other drugs is a never ending risk. I have faught those guys on PCP, and that super human strength deal is real. Anyway, some thoughts about why mouse guns are appropriate and the reason is because my petite wife is not gong to carry a 1911 or 357 mag, her Ruger LC9s sometimes maybe, but if properly aware maybe, just maybe her 380 will be within reach when that time comes. Comments and observations.?
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/man-punches-pregnant-woman-she-164222661.html
As Vlad Putin kills babies and little kids and innocent people every day, I keep reading about old ladies and young kids being killed by pit bull dogs and other dogs and getting mugged and robbed right here at home. Something wrong with that picture. This link says a guy punched a lady for not giving him her seat on the bus. What would we do if we are standing there? Just watch and go home and tell everybody about what a jerk he was? And if he kept punching her how many punches before we intervened? I can only recall one time when I was close to a deal like that, and I caught the guy as he launched a round house punch and took him to the ground, it was pretty easy, he did not know I was in the fight, until he was on the ground, then he changed his mind about hitting people, but I was 3 decades younger.......
And then I think back to 1977, I was a federal investigator and assigned to a new post in Oklahoma. The district secretary was the sweetest lady on the planet and treated the new kid on the block like he was her own son. Everybody loved her. But while she was so kind and sweet, she had another story. Every year, her husband and 2 kids would go to south Padre Island, Texas for the week of Christmas. Then it ended. Because while they were gone, her mother, age 69, was brutally raped and tied to a chair and left to die. And she did, in a few days. So, the family came home and called grandma and when no answer came made a bad dash to central Oklahoma, where they round her 4 day old corpse tied to a chair. I always wondered how she could be so kind and sweet when she had just gone through that not long before.
And 1978, was a bad year in Oklahoma. I had the honor being assigned as an agent on a second agency to work on the Roger Dale Stafford case. Roger and his wife Verna and his POS brother herded 6 people inside a Sirloin Stockade and murdered them. They drove down Interstate 35 about 40 miles and had Verna stand out by the car with the hood up while he and his POS brother hid in the dark. Sgt Lorenz and his wife and kid were headed back to Randolph AFB, in San Antonio. Both adults were shot as the 12 year old son in the camper on back watched, then they opened it and killed him also. They say Roger and crew killed 34 people. I met and interviewed the father of the 15 year old girl, who was murdered in that walk-in locker. How do you interview a father after a deal like that? About that death penalty? It works.
Roger Dale Stafford - Wikipedia
Just a few years later, I had an argument with a guy about a used car I had for sale. I refused to sell him the car with him giving me a personal check, he went postal on me. I was an experienced law enforcement offer by 1986, had put lots of bad guys in jail, and here I was unarmed letting some stranger test drive the car we had for sale, and he was in my face. He seemed strange, so I went back inside and dropped my 5 shot J frame in the pocket, went back out and told him there was no deal but I would be happy to meet him at his bank and do a cash deal or whatever. He cussed a while and then left. A few months later, my wife yelled at me to come watch the news. That guy made the new s, national news. That guy was Patrick Sherill, the guy who killed 15 people inside the post office on August 20, 1986, not 50 miles away and a couple months later. And the story gets worse, a guy that worked for me, his wife was one of the 15.
Edmond post office shooting - Wikipedia
Now my wife is just past that 69 and we live an a semi rural place. Love the wildlife and the fact we can sit out and not hear cars and screams of kids and noisy people, but when I am gone, anybody can drop by. Did I mention we live on a dead end.? And then I have medical issue, so sometimes she goes an hour or two north or south to see the grand kids and great grand kids and I am not there. And once in a while I go off with the guys and kill a deer, 5 hours away. And one of these days, pretty soon, I will not be here at all.
So, having been in military and civilian law enforcement local, state, federal and military, I have met some nice thugs and some bad thugs, and know there are lots of them out there. This incident of some jerk punching a lady is now pretty common. That jerk will punch anther lady or child or do other violence. There are other officers on this site, am I wrong? I have been retired over 2 decades, so maybe bad guys only do one bad thing now?
Anyway. my point is we need to raise the awareness and promote training people to use firearms and to have them. I am not going to convince any non gun person to carry a large gun. But if I can convince people to learn how to shoot and when to carry the gun, at least they have a chance. And the place to start in my view is something they will actually carry. I have several 380s and my plan is to give them away. Don't ask I already have a list.
Anyway, just food for thought. Most of us will never meet these truly bad ones, but they are in the parking lot at Walmart when we are there, and we walk pas them every day. FWIW
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