You're not Bond, James Bond, and the perps ain't Goldfinger.
According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used 2.5-million times per year to prevent robberies, rapes, murders, carjackings, home-invasions, etc., 99% of the time without a shot being fired.
These little pussies would have run away like scalded dogs had he produced so much as a pea-shooter.
And I still don't have any sympathy for people without enough sense of self-preservation to look out for themselves.
Thanks for that link E. Reg. that 2.5 million a year number, If that is divided down to days and then figured into 50 states, (sure, more in some states than others due to many factors), it works out to one heck of a daily per state number! I con. carry 100% of the time out and about, (and open carry here at home on the mountain), but I hope I never have to use my weapon for anything other than target shooting or hunting or training. If I do, I have been trained in skills, mindset and pre/post incidents legal considerations. I believe it was either weapons experts/wqriters/trainers Clint Smith or Massad Ayoob, (might have been someone else), that wrote an article a while back that stated, according to available info, even a 100% justified use of lethal force ended up costing the ‘good guy’ approx. thirty grand on average depending on the many factors involved!! The alternative of ending up murdered of course makes it a no brainer, but we had better be DAMN sure if our weapon is going to be presented in a self defense action, and then DAMN sure, and one must have prepared this in our heads a long time before......to use it. The last sentence of your post says it all. I could not agree more with that. It is really sad so many go thru life with the ‘it/that will never happen to me’ stupid thinking. I know quite a few fellow seniors who think(?) this way. They should know better I believe.