As gun rights advocates will tell you, there’s no better protection from violent criminals than openly carrying a gun. Any criminal will take one look at the gun you’re carrying, see that you’re a Real Man™, and immediately leave you alone to seek a lesser, more effeminate target who isn’t brave enough to carry around a real gun so everyone can see how brave he is.
Unless the criminal wants your gun.
William Coleman III was robbed of his Walter- brand P22 just after 2:00 a.m. October 4 in Gresham by a young man who asked him for it — and flashed his own weapon as persuasion.
Coleman, 21, was talking to his cousin in the 17200 block of NE Glisan St., after purchasing the handgun earlier that day, when a young man asked him for a cigarette, police said.
The man then asked about the gun, pulled a gun from his own waistband and said ”I like your gun. Give it to me.”
Coleman handed over the gun and the man fled on foot.

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Unless the criminal wants your gun.
William Coleman III was robbed of his Walter- brand P22 just after 2:00 a.m. October 4 in Gresham by a young man who asked him for it — and flashed his own weapon as persuasion.
Coleman, 21, was talking to his cousin in the 17200 block of NE Glisan St., after purchasing the handgun earlier that day, when a young man asked him for a cigarette, police said.
The man then asked about the gun, pulled a gun from his own waistband and said ”I like your gun. Give it to me.”
Coleman handed over the gun and the man fled on foot.

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