Maybe the lowlife felt 'dissed' that the owner didn't move fast enough...
What good does scaring them off do?
Ya, it’s not easy taking a life.
Does anybody think these thugs aren’t going to end up killing somebody in the course of a future robbery?
A lot of the “anti-robber ‘game’” is psychological.
I like to remember the owner of an inner city liquor store who, after he had shot and killed an armed robber in his store, the third robbery that month, and it was closed for the rest of the night for clean up, when he got an idea. With masking tape and some white paint, he marked out the chalk outline of the dead robber on the floor and made it permanent.
After then, he noticed that at least once a month, someone he didn’t know would enter the store, take one look at the outline on the floor, turn around and walk back out again without a word. The number of armed robberies dropped to zero.
Now granted, this was an extreme, but it was one that worked. And there are many other things that could be done that could psychologically inhibit robbers (excepting those who are so drunk and/or stoned they can’t comprehend anything unless it causes them a lot of physical pain, if that.)
It would actually be worth it to do a psychological study, with convicted armed robbers, of what they could see in a store window or door, or in a business, that would convince them to *not* rob the place. This is important, because while honest, psychologically sound people might *think* they know what would dissuade armed robbers, lord knows how the defective little minds of armed robbers function.
But the bottom line is that, while it’s great to be able and willing to defend yourself, it is always better that you *protect* yourself, so that you do not *have* to defend yourself.