chris in va
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We need camera's all over the major cities like they have in Europe.
IMO, a really bad idea.
We need camera's all over the major cities like they have in Europe.
We need camera's all over the major cities like they have in Europe.
That is why cops may and often do arrest people who are fighting.
If you get in a fight with someone it may escalate into something way beyond what you intend.
If a fight can be avoided by shutting the h*ll up and walking or driving away then you have a moral and legal obligation to do so.
Deciding to engage in combat and expecting a "fair" fight is STUPID.
That makes sense and in the emotion of the situation I would want to do exactly the same. However, we have a justice system in place to make sure you don't kill the guy that you think killed your child.Redworm,
About the duel. Totally a personal outlook, but there are a few circumstances (and I mean VERY FEW) might I would enter into a duel with someone. If someone murdered one of my kids, I might consider the chance to kill him/her personally with favor. Not many other circumstances I would think rate that level of commitment.
Where does that leave us? What things can we do to prevent this, try and "cure" these problems?
Question, why is everybody afraid of the thought of camera's? What would it have hurt the dead couple? What happened to the shooter? How many crimes do we have that have gone unsolved? Remember the bombs set off in the subways in London, the folks that set them were caught. Anybody heard about the bicycle bomber this morning in Times Square? He had a hood on, so they haven't caught him yet, but they know when he came by, and the chances of catching him are a lot better because they have camera's in New York since 9/11. It's life according to Dylan, "The times, they are a changin." Just my opinion. (Oh, and I do have cameras at my place.)
Crimes commited with firearms are not a rampant issue in this country.
The problem in reporting the way they do is they cause fear in the uneducated.
They didn't make this up, it happened and to know that it can happen to anyone is somewhat scary, isn't it?
why is it dumb to expect a fair fight with someone over something minor?
The first rule of all great self defense methods is to avoid trouble in the first place. If you can't control yourself and keep from responding to road raging idiots then I guess it is scary that some of them are killers.
If a stranger attacks me with his fists, I'm going to severly injure or kill him. In my worldview I have to I don't know what intentions he may have.
I guess part of the hinting I am doing without just mentioning the phrase is where did it go from a "gentlemanly" type of fighting to a survival type instinct.
If someone makes me angry enough to want to black their eye or break their nose, why is killing them such a stretch?
If someone broke my nose or knocked some of my teeth out, I could not let it end there, I'm not built that way. I would escalate until I won.
I guess I'm ignorant or too young (43) to be familiar with the freindly fist fight where bygones are bygones.
but with incidents similar to the road rage in the OP I would never make that leap into fighting to the death or fighting with whatever weapons, objects, things I could find laying around.
I am almost HALF your age
I don't know where you came up with the idea of the friendly fight, outside of the activities of children.
However I can assure you the there hasn't ever been a time when you could engage strangers in physical combat and not risk serious injury or death.