No offense jar but at this point you have been making a lot of statements based on "personal" experience. A lot of "every person I know" therefore...kind of statements.
Are you serious?
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When you are armed, you simply do not get as upset about irritations as when you are unarmed.
Comparing martial arts to a firearm? You can stop yourself from killing somone using martial arts but if you are "trained" using a weapon you aim for "center of mass." The intent being deadly force. That force a person uses for the purpose of causing death or serious bodily harm. At least that was what they trained us to do in the military when qualifying the various weapons we needed to use.
Trying to just aim and shoot for a person's leg or arms doesn't work and most civilian people in a situation were they feel they need to defend themselves are not thinking ("oh i'll shoot him in the leg, that'll stop the poor bugger"), they are most likely not thinking at all and reacting.
I thought this site had some interesting studies done. My
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AAA foundation
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In approximately 4,400 of the 10,037 known aggressive driving incidents, the perpetrator used a firearm, knife, club, fist, feet or other standard weapon for the attack. In approximately 2,300 cases the aggressive driver used an even more powerful weapon -- his or her own vehicle. And in approximately 1,250 cases the aggressive driver used his or her own vehicle and a standard weapon like a gun, knife, or club. No information was available for 1,087 of the cases reviewed.
Without question the most popular weapons used by aggressive drivers are firearms and motor vehicles. In 37 percent of the cases a firearm was used; in 35 percent the weapon was the vehicle itself.
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However, as might be expected, the majority of aggressive drivers are relatively young, relatively poorly educated males who have criminal records, histories of violence, and drug or alcohol problems. Many of these individuals have recently suffered an emotional or professional setback, such as losing a job or a girlfriend, going through a divorce, or having suffered an injury or an accident. It is not unusual for friends and relatives to describe these individuals as "odd," "disenfranchised," or "a loner."
But hundreds of aggressive drivers -- motorists who have snapped and committed incredible violence -- are successful men and women with no known histories of crime, violence, or alcohol and drug abuse. When the media interview the friends and neighbors of these individuals, they hear that "he is the nicest man," "a wonderful father," or "he must have been provoked."
Personal anectdotes? At least support them with something?
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