Kleck actually making some sense on lenient gun laws

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96. I know! And I don't buy any of them.

Let's be honest, the validity of any poll is about as accurate as asking 17-18 year old males how many times they've had sex, or asking anglers how big was their biggest fish. There are some things that are never going to have any validity in a phone based poll. Nope. You gotta be there to know the truth.

I'm reminded of a night many years ago. I was sitting in a patrol car around midnight, writing up a report, when this guy tapped on my window. I wound it down and asked if I could help. He replied, "No, you fucker! I hate cops. I've got a gun and I'm going to kill you, you fuckin' rozzer!" He was obviously drunk, quite a bit bigger than me and I considered that he might be serious. It was a rough part of town. So, I'm thinking "What do I do? I don't have a gun and maybe he does. He's also quite a bit bigger and could probably beat the crap out of me and he's pressed up against my door, so getting out of the car is going to be difficult." Well, I pressed the transmit button on my radio mike and said "Why would you want to kill me here at the corner of Bank and Green?" Within a minute three other cars had arrived. We made sure he didn't have gun, took a knife off him and gave him a ride home. I thought about that later, and wondered how a cop in America might have dealt with it.
But it was definitely a defensive radio use.