The averages for police response is very bad. Anyone who has ever been in a firefight or dealt with an emergent situation knows that a great deal can happen in 2-3 minutes:
Here are
ten major US cities and their average response time, ranked best to worst:
- Chicago: 3.46 minutes
- Los Angeles: 5.7 minutes
- Seattle: 7 minutes
- Dallas: 8 minutes
- Miami: 8 minutes
- New York City: 9.1 minutes
- Atlanta: 9.5 minutes
- Houston: 10 minutes
- Detroit: 12 minutes
- Denver: 13 minutes
I’ve owned a cash business, lived where response times are shyte, and there is no way in hell I’m going to leave my safety in the hands of the Uvalde Popo types.
I can legally carry in 32 states and I will continue to. What most gun control advocates do not understand is that 99% of people who carry rue the day they’d ever have to use their sidearm.
Situational awareness and avoidance is high when you’re carrying, you tend to be more polite, even to the point of obsequiousness when you carry. You gun grabbers have absolutely no idea - I’ve stood behind you at the market 1000 times and you’d never know the difference.
“An armed society is a polite society.” -Heinlein
Let us take away your ability to defend yourself, we’ll defend you! Yeah, no.
Protection of your life from what?