re: What Would You Actually Do? (Carjacking)

Scenario #4. Never step foot in a 3rd world shithole

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Get out and hand them my keys. There is a time to fight but that's not it. I'm not getting killed over a vehicle.

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The thing that scares most people over this scenario is that the feral animals don’t fear consequences and will shoot you anyways. NOPD more than likely won’t even show up.

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Material possessions can be replaced Tell em to take it, it's not worth getting shot by some 15 yr old idiot

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He will just keep doing it again and will eventually kill someone.

if it’s new you are going to be paying off that debt because your car isn’t worth what you paid.

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It’s a hell of a day easier to say oh I wish I did this or hear my friend say you should’ve done that. But when you’ve got two pistols pointed in your face, your body reacts a lot differently so I’m excited to see all the bad asses on here and what they think they would do

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It gets easier after your first time.

I remember the first time some guy got in the car with me because I stupidly left the doors unlocked while my job took me into an iffy neighborhood. I calmly drove him away from the scene, told him I was cop and that I was dropping off a bait car in a different neighborhood. I asked him whether he wanted me to just drop him off or if he wanted to take this any further.

He said he just thought I wanted to buy something and his job was to show me. I pulled over and told him it sounded like we both should have studied harder in school and we’d better not see each other again.

I kept up my end of the deal and went to grad school. I studied harder and got a much higher paying job.

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The thing that scares most people over this scenario is that the feral animals don’t fear consequences and will shoot you anyways. NOPD more than likely won’t even show up.

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I guess there's always that chance but I think it's probably more likely that they shoot at you if you try to get away.

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We’re running because the engine will kill once the key fob in my pocket gets a certain distance away.

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Not true for all cars.

LINK

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A different issue is whether defensive uses of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun-wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies (Kleck, 1988; Kleck and DeLone, 1993; Southwick, 2000; Tark and Kleck, 2004). Effectiveness of defensive tactics, however, is likely to vary across types of victims, types of offenders, and circumstances of the crime, so further research is needed both to explore these contingencies and to confirm or discount earlier findings.

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If this happened in the city where I work I would almost certainly recognize the carjacker as one of the kids I work with.

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In all probability, you are probably giving him a set of keys, including the one to your house!

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With your address in the glove box