re: After watching numerous fight videos lately, I’m convinced that 99% of men can’t fight.

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I don’t understand this. I carry a glock everywhere and I’ve often thought about how I would react in different situations. Not many lead me to pulling it and especially a fist fight!
I was raised that if you have to point your gun at somebody then you better squeeze the trigger because there is no excuse for doing so unless you thought you was going to not make it out alive.

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While all of this is true, especially --ESPECIALLY-- the bold part, one must assume that, especially nowadays, if someone is hell bent on fighting you regardless of your attempts to deescalate the situation, that you ought to be mentally prepared to kill that person once their assault begins, before they kill you.

If I've done all I can do to talk the person down (and if you have a firearm on you then that's what you'd better be trying your level best to do) then I must assume the worst.

One of the last fights I was in (which was many years ago because I'm not trashy, nor young and dumb and full of piss and vinegar anymore) was one in which I was pretty much dragged into the fight. I hit the guy, broke his nose, and then his friends stuck a 6" buck knife in my back. Trashy, I know, but you get a "trashiness mulligan" if you're young and still learning about life. Hurt like hell, and fricked up many months of my life.

I was an eighth of an inch away from shitting in a bag for the rest of my life. Always assume the other person, especially if they're hell bent on fighting you, wants to kill you; because every single day, day after day, that IS the case when people murder each other with their bare hands. I used to throw down whenever and wherever, but nowadays? Nowadays that shite is for the birds and the little boys.

Understand this: I won't kill you with my firearm, but I will kill you with it too: The choice is yours and yours alone.