i just got mugged and i'm tired of it
I just got mugged trying to buy weed. By the grace of god I only lost 30$ and a cc card that I have already cancelled. If just one or two little things had played out differently a little earlier this afternoon, I would have lost >500 hundred dollars.
I'm fucking sick of the shit. Every goddamn apartment complex I can afford to rent is filled with sociopathic marauders.
I'm not a weak man (500# DL less than a year ago) but I was not comfortable engaging in H2H combat with the fellow that was mugging me. He was about my size ~5'10 200, and I sensed on a deep level that I would not have been able to prevail in pure H2H. Despite the fact that I have been mugged before I feel ashamed about this in particular, because in 7 years of living in low-income neighborhoods and apartment complexes I have never been taken by a man who lacked a knife at the least.
I'm familiar with the shock of being robbed. I've been robbed at gunpoint twice and knifepoint once in the past 10 years. But there is a real, deep shame associated wth getting one's pockets tapped by a bare-handed man barely bigger than you.
What would you do if you were me? I have no experience with firearm ownership, but it is no longer sensible for me to delay familiarizing myself therewith. Should I just buy a gun? What kind/caliber and how do I decide? Do you have anything off the top of your head that you would suggest a new firearm owner read?