I shall not tell PETA.
If you can defend yourself with the threat of a thing that looks like a gun but is not .
This possibly works because the person you are bluffing thinks it is possible that it is a real gun.
So if guns were really scarce this wouldn't work.
There is a King Snake that is colored a lot like a Coral Snake, this strategy must work for the snake , but if there were no dangerous Coral Snakes , it would not.
Criminals that want to live to commit future crimes , need to go with the odds and stay where they are less likely to get shot ,even if there is not certainty that there is someone with a gun.
Target stores has just posted a bulletin to its customers , requesting that they stop coming into the store armed , even where this is legal.
I think I shall avoid Target entirely now that it is an official free fire zone.