NCPA - Policy Report 176 - Myths About Gun Control
NCPA - Policy Report 176 - Myths About Gun Control: "Case Study: Los Angeles, Calif.
Rioters in Los Angeles in the spring of 1992 looted and burned a store owned by Korean-Americans in Hollywood, even though they had to break through steel roll-down doors with crowbars and sledgehammers to get at it. But they spared a similar business in Koreatown. The reason? The rioters could see commandos with Uzi machine guns on top of the Koreatown building. The merchants later revealed that, although they did have a few guns that they fully intended to use if necessary, the 'Uzis' were toys, and the 'commandos' were costumed merchants.17
The looters and arsonists tended to leave houses and apartment buildings in the riot area of Los Angeles alone - not out of compassion, but because, as a 13-year-old neighborhood resident said, 'They (the residents) got guns and everybody knows that. Nobody's going to want to mess with folks in houses.'18"
Rioters in Los Angeles in the spring of 1992 looted and burned a store owned by Korean-Americans in Hollywood, even though they had to break through steel roll-down doors with crowbars and sledgehammers to get at it. But they spared a similar business in Koreatown. The reason? The rioters could see commandos with Uzi machine guns on top of the Koreatown building. The merchants later revealed that, although they did have a few guns that they fully intended to use if necessary, the 'Uzis' were toys, and the 'commandos' were costumed merchants.17
The looters and arsonists tended to leave houses and apartment buildings in the riot area of Los Angeles alone - not out of compassion, but because, as a 13-year-old neighborhood resident said, 'They (the residents) got guns and everybody knows that. Nobody's going to want to mess with folks in houses.'18"
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