"You can thank god, that those men obviously were not a dangerous gang of criminals, otherwise you would have been dead..."
Thugs and bullies are primarily looking for easy targets. They did not know who/what I was. Well dressed in a nice car armed in their neighborhood means I could be a worse criminal than they are.
Had they pushed the attack, I would have fought. Would I have died? Maybe. I'd take several of them out.
Point is simple. Unarmed, I would have been robbed/beaten. As it was, I was unchallenged.
I have found that to always be true. Thugs and bullies are not interested in a fight with someone who is not afraid of them.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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