Man holds suspected carjacker at gunpoint until police arrive


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Appropriate use of a weapon, no knee-jerk shots fired. 

 

If everyone behaved like that I'd have less of a problem with them. 

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Good thing he had a weapon.

 

Hopefully the carjacker isn't back on the streets a week later though, which seems to be the norm.

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Appropriate use of a weapon, no knee-jerk shots fired.

If everyone behaved like that I'd have less of a problem with them.

FYI tjis is exactly how it usually happens. That or the criminal is simply repelled and flees, which often doesn't make it into the statistics.

Out of the hundreds of thousands (some surveys put it at ~1.5+ million) of reported incidents a year in the US there are about 300 fatal shootings a year by self defending civilians.

Of course that means we hear of one virtually daily or in clusters after a statistical gap.

Woundings would be higher of course, but the percentages for either vs. total incidents are very small and usually the result of continued aggression by the perp.

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