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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
Due to the differences in culture, his post is far less relevant here. Sure, you might have someone ask for directions and then pull a knife on you, but the ones with guns tend to not want to waste bullets on shooting anyone but each other. Civilian casualties involved are generally incidental. Almost exclusively, in fact, due to the shooters' inability to hit a target.
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But the Kalamazoo cop doesn't know that. He only knows what he's seen and experienced. And if his experiences are anything like that of the author of the street robbery article, then you can see why he wished he was able to reach for a gun, weather he ever had to pull it or not.