[NoMoSno]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

Alas, it has become painfully evident that you do not read the material presented to you with perception.

1. The low murder rate in The Villages is exactly the Colonel's point "that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another." Don't you get that?

2. The news account regarding the convenience store shooting says that the "highly agitated" armed robber "pointed the shotgun" at the CCW holder, who "feared for his life." What would you have had him do, wait until the robber shot him at close range with a shotgun?

Included in the news account is a statement from the Milwaukee County District Attorney: "He disrupted an act that potentially exposed himself and others to great bodily harm," Chisholm said. Video footage from the store showed "he acted reasonably and in a controlled manner during the encounter," Chisholm said. "Reasonably and in a controlled manner." Get it?

3. Your almost childlike faith in how much better a "trained police officer" would perform in such circumstances is touching, but misplaced. It is one thing to stand up and punch holes in a piece of cardboard on a pistol range; it is entirely different to be in an armed confrontation in which you are in grave danger of being injured or killed. No one knows in advance how he will perform under such a stress.

It may have escaped your notice, but "trained police officers" are wounded or killed in armed confrontations all too often.

I have lost friends and comrades to line of duty injury and death.

Well said Carl!