#10: Allowing yourself to be forced into a car or trunk at gunpoint
So, people who allow themselves to be forced into a car or trunk at gunpoint go to the emergency room and people who don’t do not. Is that because you only get injured if you do what they say, or because you only survive if you do what they say?
This is pretty standard advice from police and is probably not based on emergency room experience. The advice is to obey people who threaten immediate harm, except to refuse to go anywhere. The claim is that the main reason for transit is to go somewhere safer for the assailant, compared to shooting you on the street.
Also, potential to survive wound. ~16% global mortality of single gunshot wound w/ medical treatment?
Criminal’s payoff matrix also matters. For example, forcing somebody to move even a small distance can bump a fairly minor assault and/or robbery charge up to much more serious kidnapping charge, which means that simply executing you later will remove 1. a witness and 2. An incredibly cunning, desperate, and dangerous entity that may have hidden weapons, unexpected combat capabilities, and hidden means of calling allies, without increasing their sentence very much if they are caught.
The claim is that letting yourself be coerced into a vehicle means you’ll be taken somewhere that you’ll be even more vulnerable. It’s better to risk being shot in a more public place while trying to get away or call for help.
None of advice is based on the premise that you can stay out of the emergency room by being dead.
None of advice is based on the premise that you can stay out of the emergency room by being dead.
It sounds like it’s based on what people who work at the emergency room saw. How could they possible know why you’re not in the emergency room?
For that matter, how do they know it’s not just that most people let themselves get kidnapped? If most of them do, and an equal portion end up in the emergency room, them most of the people in the emergency room will have let themselves get kidnapped.
So, people who allow themselves to be forced into a car or trunk at gunpoint go to the emergency room and people who don’t do not. Is that because you only get injured if you do what they say, or because you only survive if you do what they say?
This is pretty standard advice from police and is probably not based on emergency room experience. The advice is to obey people who threaten immediate harm, except to refuse to go anywhere. The claim is that the main reason for transit is to go somewhere safer for the assailant, compared to shooting you on the street.
And running away works surprisingly well. It’s way way harder to hit someone running with a handgun than most people estimate.
Also, potential to survive wound. ~16% global mortality of single gunshot wound w/ medical treatment?
Criminal’s payoff matrix also matters. For example, forcing somebody to move even a small distance can bump a fairly minor assault and/or robbery charge up to much more serious kidnapping charge, which means that simply executing you later will remove 1. a witness and 2. An incredibly cunning, desperate, and dangerous entity that may have hidden weapons, unexpected combat capabilities, and hidden means of calling allies, without increasing their sentence very much if they are caught.
There’s also a significant chance they don’t actually want to discharge the firearm in the current location and are hoping you just quietly go.
That too, not to mention that murder specifically is always investigated but assault might not be.
The claim is that letting yourself be coerced into a vehicle means you’ll be taken somewhere that you’ll be even more vulnerable. It’s better to risk being shot in a more public place while trying to get away or call for help.
None of advice is based on the premise that you can stay out of the emergency room by being dead.
It sounds like it’s based on what people who work at the emergency room saw. How could they possible know why you’re not in the emergency room?
For that matter, how do they know it’s not just that most people let themselves get kidnapped? If most of them do, and an equal portion end up in the emergency room, them most of the people in the emergency room will have let themselves get kidnapped.