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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Omega, According to [URL=http://www.dictionary.com,]www.dictionary.com,[/URL] "nothing" is nowhere listed as a definition. Kindly explain your source for that definition? "An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects." Of course, why would anyone want to live in Utopia when you can shoot people with CAR-15s? [i]Take chances? There is no reason for the delivery person to take any less chances of the people he/she is delivering pizzas to. I'll also argue that carrying a gun will certainly keep your chances from gewtting murdered better.[/i] You mean the house you deliver to, the people will rob you? Yeah, that'd be real smart. Even if they were to kill you and bury you in the basement, the store would know the last address the driver was at, and would know something was wrong within twenty or thirty minutes after such a thing occured ("Hey, where's Tom? He was just going to Venture Court, wasn't he? Let me call his cell ..."). You'd have to be insane to rob a delivery driver at your own home. [i]The criminal may just want the money, and even the pizza ... They still have the weapon and the capacity to harm you in most cases - Even if just to scare you or kill you destroying any identification they can be made on.[/i] Robberies of delivery drivers are non-existant during day hours. Most robbers (when they strike), prefer to do such things at night. Most deliveries are in residential areas, so doing it during the day would draw to much attention and possibly too many witnesses. Therefore, they rob at dark. And how many people fit the description of "maybe a 6 foot tall black male?" or "he was latino, I think, I couldn't see how high he was." It's not like we've got night-vision, people. Identification is going to be hard to make 'cuz we're never going to see them. [i]Tell that to the employees of the Canton, NC Pizza Hutt who were robbed last month. Usually they don't correct, but they still know how to make a robbery ... the criminal has not been found or identified yet because he was wearing a mask.[/i] Now, did he walk into the store and rob it? Or did he rob several different drivers? If he walked into the store, well, it happens, to everyone. It seems everybody cooperated, and no one got hurt. Also, he wore a mask, wasn't identified, and didn't kill anyone, now did he? [i]Being less than a mile away, don't think for a second I wasn't carrying my gun the rest of the night?[/i] Why would you? If he robbed a driver, it was more than likely a setup. He picked to rob a driver because he knew the guy would carry money. If he robbed the store, then the same thing. I doubt it was a spur of the moment robbery, and therefore, he wouldn't be out for some random guy walking around. [i]Preventing what? Your not preventing robberies. Your not preventing the fact you can be killed for that money[/i] Shit, man, I could be killed for my money as I walk out my apartment door. It doesn't mean I feel the need to carry a gun. And yes, we are preventing robberies by taking precautions. We don't carry large amounts of money, doing that makes us non-desireable targets for a robber. We often call people's homes before we deliver to ensure that they are in fact home, and often, ask them to come to the door and watch us walk to the house and then back to the car. Etcetra, etcetra. I completely disagree with you on this point, but I suppose you feel the only precautions that should be taken are a 9mm round? Sorry, bud, I'm not going to kill someone over a few bucks and a pizza. [i]Responsible use and education of a firearm is not to be shamed. A gun may make it easy to kill someone, but it's a hell of a lot easier to purchase a knife and mutilate and in effect kill someone[/i] I didn't say it was to be shamed. If anything, when people feel so scared where they live that they can't walk outside without a firearm, perhaps they should consider that fear, and move to a safer area? Just a thought. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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