There’s a lot of talk from anti-gun left wingers that you don’t need a gun or a CCW permit to protect yourself from gun-wielding criminals, that all you need to do is learn self-defense and martial arts techniques.
CHICAGO (AP) — Two hulking NBA stars were bound with duct tape and robbed of cash and jewelry by masked gunmen in separate holdups that have Chicago-area detectives wondering whether someone is targeting professional athletes.
New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry — 6-foot-11, 285 pounds — was tied up along with his wife and an employee at his mansion in suburban Burr Ridge on Saturday.
Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker, who is 6-foot-9, 245 pounds, was similarly robbed along with a relative at his $4 million townhouse in Chicago’s exclusive River North section on July 10.
The odds are that the gunmen were all smaller and less physically imposing than the professional basketball players they robbed. And both players, even in the absence of formal training in self-defense maneuvers, could have probably improvised, ceteris paribus. But ceteris was not paribus; the robbers had a gun in their immediate possession, and Messrs. Curry and Walker did not.
