So This "Blaming the Hero" Trend...

So yes, I have a serious question for all you lovely people.  I realize the title being "Blaming the Hero" may not be the best term to use.  But the people who are getting blamed here are referred to as heroes by many people, even if they do not deem themselves as heroes and merely just defending themselves or others. Now, I may not be the most intelligent person on the planet, but I always at least liked thinking I wasn't a dummy and had some level of common sense and intelligence.  I've always prided myself on thinking outside the box or being able to see things from all sides... to step back and put myself in other people's shoes to understand where they're coming from.  I know I don't have all the answers and realize that hey, maybe someone else does!  But I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around this and make any sense out of it.  What I'm talking about is this.

This isn't the first time an article like this has come up.  Just earlier this month, two people tried to rob a convenience store not too far from my hometown in Pennsylvania, drew their guns on a passerby (who was armed and had a permit), and yet again the family of the dead robbers were crying out for justice.  That particular article doesn't go into as much detail about the families of the robbers cries for justice, but you can easily look it up if you wish.

So here's the situation.  Here we have two instances where people armed with guns (as opposed to unarmed with guns?  The partial redundancy here is not lost on me I can assure you) go into an establishment to commit a robbery.  In the first article I linked you, a passerby seen the suspect with a gun to an employee's head and stepped in to help. In the second, two gunmen robbed a convenience store and upon exiting, an armed legally carrying citizen stopped them and shot both of the gunmen as they drew their weapons on him, defending himself.  And in both of these circumstances the families of the robbers are not objecting to the actions of their robbing gun-wielding loved ones, but blaming the people who stepped in to save someone else's life or defending themselves??

To a point I get it.  Mind you, this is a very small point.  Almost microscopic even.  Their loved ones are either dead or were injured.  I understand mourning that, I do.  But I will tell you one thing right now, if any child of mine ever pulled that shit, the last thing I would be doing is blaming the citizen who stepped in.  Would I be upset and mourning my son/daughter?  Yes I would, very deeply so.  But if my child went in with a loaded gun and threatened the lives of others, and someone defended themselves or someone else and shot my child?  I would not be blaming them.  If I blamed anyone it may be myself.  Perhaps I did everything that a good parent did and my child just got in with the wrong people and it's nothing I could have done differently to change the course of events.  Perhaps somewhere along the line there was something I could have done differently to make sure my child went down a better path.  This all brings up two very important issues with our society today:

1. Enough with the blaming everyone else and taking no responsibility bullshit.  If you're dumb enough to bring a loaded gun with you and point it at someone, if you get shot by someone who is armed trying to defend themselves or save someone else's life, you deserve what you get.  Unless someone renders you unconscious and kidnaps you and brings you into some sort of secret lair where they strap a bomb to your chest and tell you if you don't go into this store and rob people and point a gun at them they're going to blow you the hell up and murder your family, you have a choice.  You chose to bring a gun into an establishment and point it at someone.  You chose to rob that store.  You have no one to blame but yourself, and your family sure as hell shouldn't be blaming anyone but you either.  I'd be willing to bet money that if these young men's situations had been reversed, and it was them with the guns to their heads and they ended up shot, and the families later on found out a passerby with a gun did not stop to help they'd be bitching about that too.  They'd change their tune to "he should have just walked out of the store" to "he should have done something!  If he did something my son would still be alive!"

2.  Guns.  Yes... evil guns.  These are typically the same people who cry about how only police or military should have guns and normal citizens shouldn't have any guns to defend themselves.  Guess what genius?  All the gun control laws you want to be put in place will not keep them out of the hands of criminals.  Why you ask?  Criminals don't follow the fucking law douche canoe.  If they did, they *gasp* wouldn't be criminals!  If some asshat breaks into your home with a gun and shoots your spouse and/or child, I'll bet you'd be wishing you had a gun instead of sitting there helpless waiting for the police to arrive.  Not to mention statistically speaking, areas and countries with higher gun ownership typically have lower crime rates.  Look at Chicago.  Like, no one there has guns but the police and criminals.  Highest crime rate in the country! 

Then you have the "Gun Free Zones".  What do they do exactly?  Does some gun wielding maniac see the "Gun Free Zone" sign and go "oh shit, I wanted to shoot a bunch of people, but that's a gun free zone!!!" and turn around and walk away?  Hell no they don't... easy prey. (That's an entirely different topic, mass murdering douche nozzles typically have a host of mental issues that haven't been addressed largely due to our lack of a mental health care system.)  Guns. Do. Not. Kill. People... People do.

So I want to post a question/experiment to all the anti-gun lovelies out there.  You probably don't have a gun if you're an anti-gun person... unless you're a hypocrite. So you may have to find a friend or family member who has a gun for this.  Take the gun, and a clip of ammo and sit it near your door.  Sit the clip of ammo right next to the gun, and heck for good measure leave the door open a crack (this is extra effective if you live in the suburbs or where people pass by) and go about your day.  Place a hidden camera if you wish, or even mount a camera on the gun.  At the end of the day please report back to me how many people this gun killed.  And don't give me any of that bullshit about how people don't need guns to defend themselves.  What the fuck are you gonna do if some asshat breaks into your home who HAS a gun (he's a criminal, remember they don't obey the law) while you're in the kitchen making a sandwich or something and points a gun at you?  Try to get close enough to stab him with a knife?  Run for a phone and pray that the cops get there before he shoots your ass or your family?  If you CHOOSE to not own a gun, that's fine.  But do NOT tell me I don't have the right to defend myself.  Mind you, I used to hate guns.  I'd freak out if someone had one out anywhere near me.  But after becoming a survivor of violent crime, I'd wished back then I could have defended myself. 

The ultimate question I have is, why are we blaming the heroes, instead of blaming the criminals?  It's sad we even have to have Good Samaritan laws to begin with.  Why is it even necessary to have laws in place to protect people who are only trying to step up to do the right thing, to render aid or assistance to help others?  We have a choice.  We can choose not to hate. We can choose to help others instead of cause them harm.  It's very sad we live in a world where people are now afraid to help or get involved when someone is in some sort of trouble or distress.