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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I think it is about both.
If I felt afraid of someone, or thought someone was behaving suspiciously, being a woman, I would leave them ALONE and call the police. Unless they were trying to hurt my family or me and who knows what I would do. I would probably have profiled him as a young punk wearing a hoody walking around in the middle of the night. His color could have been purple or bright green. I would look at and wonder what that kid was doing in a hoody in the middle of the night.
I would end up being hit with my own gun or shooting someone or something I didn't aim at. I am an emotional women.
I know what I can do and what I can't do. I don't want a gun in my home, everyone gets madder than hell at someone at some time in their lives and they do NOT behave rationally. EVERYONE.
It is a mess, the whole situation. Again, not easy to figure it out.
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I'm pretty sure that I read he was wearing a "hoody" because it was raining out.
I also do not believe in using guns; have never fired a gun. Anti gun myself.
However, our state is a big hunting state. My husband has always had guns and still has guns. Used to be a hunter.
He brought a gun into his jewelry store, for protection of himself and his sales associates, after all the media attention to "smash and grabs" meaning a certain element , seen on video camera, breaking cases in jewelry stores in Albany N.Y. area and other regions........there was a rash of these jewelry store heists when the gold and platinum prices soared.
He never had to shoot or kill anyone......but our state does allow people to pack a firearm.
Back in the 1960's my sweet little 50 year old mother in law at the time said she would get herself a gun and shoot anyone who came looting her house. She sure didn't fit the profile of a crazed gun owner as I recall, but she was ready to defend her modest home from what was going on in the cities at the time.....the riots..........with tons of looting. So, one never knows how they might respond when they perceive danger.