"Just Give Them What They Want"

That is what the Left says you should do in the face a violent encounter. (They rarely want to talk about rape in that context.) Suspects shot, pistol-whipped Marengo gas station clerk after he gave them money during robbery, police say

I guess this guy didn't get that memo. The one promising that cooperation is supposed to lead to safety.

Suspect 1 held the clerk at gunpoint while he got the contents of the register, according to a police bulletin. Suspect 1 then ordered the clerk to open the safe and pistol-whipped the clerk on two occasions.

Suspect 2 was watching the door and then came behind the register and told the clerk he has three seconds. The suspect counted down and shot the clerk in the leg.

Cooperation is not the guarantee that the Gun-hating Left would like it to be. It is a strategy for dealing with a violent encounter.

To my way of thinking it is a pretty poor strategy, but to each his own. Of course it may be the first step in a response on the way to an armed defense.

Of course being armed in your own defense is also not a guarantee.

Nothing in this world is absolutely certain but death and next winter’s snow
   — Marion Zimmer-Bradley. The Saga of the Renunciates (Darkover Saga)

Cops are looking for both suspects.