Re: [OT] Pedestrian on freeway points gun at you while you are driving to work: what do you do?

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 22:59:11 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Sun, 8 Dec 2024 15:08:32 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

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Save your own life first.

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Always the smart move. Reminds me of this Youtube video of a martial
arts expert (think it was a mixture of UFC MMA and other martial arts)
talking with a young guy about how to defend yourself. His response to
every attack was to block the attack and then move away. So the young
guy kept asking him why he wasn't attacking and the expert said
there's no point since his life and those that he cared about weren't
in danger. So his thought was to get away from the guy who was trying
to attack him. 

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How does not attacking as defense work against an aggressor who is
pointing a loaded weapon at the person trying to defend himself? One
cannot retreat faster than the speed of a bullet (except for Superman).

Ah, that is a point that I neglected to cover. The video was about
someone coming at you with a knife. A gun would be an entirely
different situation as there are no good points to fight back once the
gun is out and pointed at you. Only someone like Bruce Lee might have
been able to do something and I wouldn't have given him good odds in
that situation

There may well be a need to take aggressive action given the right
opportunity to stay alive.