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Gunner21 wrote:

WildBill wrote:

Mr.ViperBoa wrote:What would you have done if you would have been able to do something about it? Just curious.

Call 911 and give a description of the persons and vehicles and watch from a safe place. Under the circumstances that you described, I wouldn't intervene.

I can't stress this enough. You are not Law Enforcement. Our CHL is there for personal protection. Call 911 file a witness report and move on.

I will probably be unliked for saying this but o well. Stand by and do nothing while the bad guy gets away and then move on. That just doesn't set well with me. Just because it doesn't say "Law Enforcement" anywhere on my shirt. I guess we are supposed to just "move on". Well if there was more enforcing going on then we wouldn't have to worry about it. I think that is what is wrong with our world today. To many people doing nothing and waiting for some one else to do something. While innocent people are the ones who pay the price of either being killed, beaten, or just having what belongs to them taken away from them. If I had been 1 minute later walking to my car and been where I could have done something about it, I don't think I would have just "moved on" as you put it. I would have made sure he would have thought twice about doing it again. Like I said, its just what I would have done. Even if you beat the snot out of the guy for being a punk, you would probably go to jail for violating the scumbags rights when the "law enforcement" shows up. So either way you lose. Thats just my opinion and no disrespect to any police out there. I have spent enough time working police and most of my friends are police and they know how I feel as well. I hope this isn't taken the wrong way, but it probably will be.

WildBill wrote:

Mr.ViperBoa wrote:Your both probably right, I just get sick and tired of hearing about and seeing the bad guy get away. Maybe if a few didnt get away so easily, less would try the same. I dont know......It just irritates me i guess.

It irritates me too, but the chances of someone getting injured or killed by intervening aren't worth the risk.

That was the first thought what went through my mind. There were a lot of people there. I was just curious to everyone else's opinions.

Your both probably right, I just get sick and tired of hearing about and seeing the bad guy get away. Maybe if a few didnt get away so easily, less would try the same. I dont know......It just irritates me i guess.

Yesterday I went in to the Wal-Mart on Cheek-Sparger Rd. in Bedford. I went in to get a RedDot for my M&P 15-22. When I finished checking out, I went to my van and was opening the new purchase to check it out when I heard some commotion behind me in the parking lot. At first I thought it was a couple of kids goofing around then I heard a woman yelling some obscenities so I got out of my van only to see her yelling at a guy at the far end of the row of cars I was in. Apparently a fine young man decided to grab her purse out of her cart while she was putting her groceries in her car. I was going to try to follow them but they were already to far gone. I kept asking myself, what if I had come out of Wal-Mart just 1 minute later than I did? I would have probably been in a situation where I could have stopped this fine young man, either with my ccw or not. What would you have done if you would have been able to do something about it? Just curious.