re: If you were mugged, would you fight back?

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The guy looks like someone you could handle in a fight,

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The one with

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the gun

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lives forever

If you know you’re gonna be in a bad area, keep a decoy wallet. Keep a little money in it, 20 or so in 5s and 1s. Old defunct card, just bullshite you don’t need and that they can’t use against you.

Easier to give them that than spend all the time and money getting your cards and ids redone.



Then, when he turns around to leave

No, though an inconvenience; everything he takes from me is replaceable. My life isn't.

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A knife at close distance is arguably more dangerous than a gun

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Agreed

I've been robbed at gun point and knife point.

Gun point was a young kid. It was a revolver in broad daylight and the gun was clearly empty. Talked to him until he got tired of threatening and ran off.

Knife was a heroin addict in new Orleans. I was cool with giving him my stuff until he reached for the girl I was with.

I got a spyderco knife buried right below my left elbow. He got to experience me with a boat load of adrenaline. Had she not been there, I very likely would have killed him. As it was, NOPD recommended I just walk away. Guy had charges a mile long anyways.

To be clear, a very sharp knife burns like a hot poker. Like fire going through you. Whatever baw had that knife kept it like a razor.

I’ve been taught and have taught disarming techniques for nearly twenty years due to the nature of the business I’m in.

Having said that, I’d hand over my wallet and phone without hesitation if I thought the guy wasn’t going to shoot.

Always have my hand on my weapon walking to my vehicle late at night.
Would welcome the opportunity.

No, I have a two year old daughter and a wife. I am not risking death over a wallet and a cell phone.

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How long until guns are tied to your particular hand?

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Probably never.


I carry, mugger is getting shot. Contrary to the ill-informed opinion of many here, fighting back has the better overall outcome.

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A different issue is whether defensive uses of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun-wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies (Kleck, 1988; Kleck and DeLone, 1993; Southwick, 2000; Tark and Kleck, 2004).

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