Re:Crime rate high? (Score 1)

There are other defenses than using lethal force. If you have time to use a gun, you also have time for plenty of other things.

I've run into hostile people. Simply a look of interest will often confuse an attacker who expects to meet fear and aggression. Make it harder to carry out his plan. Most of them are rather sorry they have ended up being who they are and very much afraid. Being non-aggressive gets you much closer to the attacker and thus gives you much better defense. If you, like so many others, think you do not want to get close, that is a key to understanding why you are being attacked in the first place; why the attacker ended up like he is.

Nothing will make you fully secure. If you get a gun, you will still be afraid. And you can still get killed, even with your own gun.

Some courage and show of respect can also fail to make you secure. But then it is a choice by which means do you want to fail and die -- should it come to that.