Criminals aren't brave. They tend to flow downhill like water and find the weakest, least resistant person to target. During the occasion that someone attempte

Criminals aren't brave. They tend to flow downhill like water and find the weakest, least resistant person to target. During the occasion that someone attempted to rob me they had their gun out first and ready - yet when I went to draw my legally carried firearm they turned and fled immediately. They don't want a fight when they can just wait five minutes and find someone who won't. I completely agree about addressing the underlying problems with crime. There's an immense spectrum of thought on how to do that, some policies are actually retrograde in practice, and in the meantime until utopia is realized I have to go about my life. An arms race is the answer because the people who are in the greatest need of protecting will be able to use arms - technology - to address the issue of their own relative frailty. If my 69 year old osteoarthritic mother is threatened by a criminal because he likes the shade of her Camry she isn't going to pontificate root causes, she's going to produce the Airweight revolver from her console and I guarantee you her aim is much better than a thug's.