A young man dressed all in black and wearing a bandana over his face entered a liquor store in Fountain Valley, Calif., on Aug. 16, pulled out what looked like a gun and demanded money. The store’s owner, however, thought the would-be robber looked like a “kid” and that his gun looked “so fake … like a plastic toy.” He pulled out his own gun, whereupon the suspect immediately fled the store and got away in a waiting vehicle. The armed citizen told reporters he was able to remain calm because he’d been robbed at gunpoint before. (abc7.com, Los Angeles, Calif., 8/18/23)

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