I don't like getting death threats

Negative, it involves exchanging a part, but for legal and safety reasons I am going to refrain from explaining further 

Next time you are in line at a convenience store, look behind you. What if the person behind you intends to rob the store, hold you hostage if things go wrong?

That's a fairly contrived situation.  Ten times more likely is that the robber standing behind you in line will wait for you to exit the store, rob the clerk afterwards, and use the single clerk as their hostage rather than having 2 unknowns instead of one to worry about.  After all, there are "evil gun nutcases" everywhere and you never know when the guy in front of you in line is one of them.  Put yourself in a robber's shoes...

WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OR DO???

I'm going to take a shot in the dark (pardon the pun!) and guess that you are from either California, New York or Illinois. Did I guess one correctly?

I, for one, would mess my pants!

Well, logically, I would more than likely hear the screams as I was either opening the door to exit or even after I had exited. So guess what? GUNS UP. Any more dumb questions, Mr. B*** Tickler?

                    Ok, I agree, don't explain. If my spelling is bad, its time for a coffee, but I'm going to bed shortly.  Normatic  Nomatic  We can piss off Czervik and start calling you  Automatic

No, you were the robber in this scenario...try to keep up.  You'd have been one mighty dumb robber to initiate your robbery as a customer is exiting/within earshot and able to easily get away and contact the authorities (the correct response, by the way, not going back in with guns blazing and no notification to anyone at all), too.

Good night.

                Hollywood execs don't buy ORIGINAL ideas. They STEAL them.

A lot of "re-boots" are due to copyright law.  That's why the latest Robocop movie was "re-imagined".  If the copyright holder doesn't do anything new with their copyright the copyright will eventually expire but if they do a bullshit re-imagining it will reset their copyright claim and they can continue to profit off of the original copyrights.

Originality is an art of concealing your sources.

You can quote me on that, Abe Crabowski.

Buchwald v Paramount

"Coming to America"

"Kill zones", lol. Are you living in Honduras or what?

People in states where firearms are banned altogether like UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc. are not living in fear, neither do they get robbed more often.

I must emphasize again that where I live only weirdos carry knives for self-defense, when it would be actually the smart thing to do if you were to be aggressed every time you go shopping.

Miss'd Saigon but shot the audience ... Theatre risk ヅ

In response to the comment about "criminals don't register their firearms":

Firearm registration laws turn non-criminal, benign, and good-intentioned citizens into criminals.  There are perfectly good reasons not to want to register your firearms with the man, the first being that it's none of the man's business.  

As far as people talking about fully automatic AK's, yeah they are easy to get, but not as easy as it used to be in the 90's.  Now there are all kinds of undercover sting operations, fake arms dealers, and snitches.

@Nomadic Kite:  Nice comment to Al Czervik, nice nice very nice indeed.

I approve.

I'm glad (maybe some of you think sad but I don't particularly care) but I'm glad and lucky I live where I don't have to think twice about going to the shops or the theatre or out on the town for fear of being shot. I'm moving to live near London soon, I hope I still feel the same in a year's time.

Keep your infantile and pretentious ramblings to yourself, lady.  First of all, nobody cares about your pompous pronouncements.  Second of all, the civilized cities of the Northeastern United States (Boston, NYC) have crime rates about on par with Western Europe.  

Thanks John. Getting told to shut up by you has indeed made my day. Pretentious enough for you? And how I want to live and what I say and where and how I talk has sweet FA to do with a Neanderthal bullying little trog like you. So take this patronising little pat on the backside and go back to your sandpit.

What makes you think you're going to be gunned down on the "streets" of the outer London suburbs?  

Fearmongers and paranoid Henny Penny's such as yourself are a blight upon humanity.

                      Let's not let the real problem get away from us people. All this exaggerated talk isn't addressing the problem. I'm ok with your standard crooks and guns. The heinous over the top acts in the past few decades have opened our eyes to how EASY it is for mentally un-stable people to get firearms. That's why we now refer to schools, malls, and work places as kill zones.