[dboreham]

This is ridiculous nonsense (although living in the West of the US myself, I know a few people who have this mentality). We just don't live in a world where the fact that nobody is robbing you blind is entirely due to fear that you'll shoot them. That's pure fantasy. They're not robbing you blind due to things like : they have jobs and are gainfully employed doing something more profitable than robbing people; they'd (eventually) be caught and sent to jail; and so on..