>>Your odds of surviving a gunfight are likely better than your odds of surviving being restrained by a criminal.
Many people forget one of the important rules of a gunfight (or knife fight): “I’ve been shot (stabbed), but I am not dead. Keep fighting!” The corollary is “Just because they might get a shot off does not mean that you surrender!”
Steal much?
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/11/il-bakery-shootout-no-restraints-3064804.html
Great source, too. Mmm hmmm.
I had a scumbag pull a gun on me. (Actually three times, but this story only addresses the first time when I was 17.)
My reaction was prompt and violent. I took the gun away from him, picked him up by the throat, and pinned him against a wall.
After he wetted himself AND I discovered the gun was a replica, I let him go (post some thrashing).
That said, if I had not done so, I do not want to think what might have happened.
Incidentally, it was a white trash punk. Heard a few years later that he managed to get himself shot dead.
The moral of the story: Resist. Violently. After all, I’m still here to tell this story. He isn’t.
I would add an important point that supports this argument.
“Resistance significantly increases degree of difficulty.”
Robbing or otherwise oppressing someone is not easy for all sorts of reasons. Because of this, the robber or oppressor will often actively demand compliance. If they don’t get it, even by passively refusing their demands, what they are trying to do becomes harder.
Some experienced, professional muggers do not even present a weapon, nor are they armed. They count on their appearance to be so intimidating that they can just ask someone for their wallet, and as often as not, that person will just hand it to them. But if they refuse, the mugger just walks away. They grasp the problem.
But if the majority do not get compliance, they try to force compliance. And this is where active resistance radically increases the degree of difficulty of what they are trying to do. It becomes not just harder, but often insurmountably hard.
First of all, they are not doing what they want to do. Instead they are trying to shepherd people, and while the clock is ticking. If there are several people, they have to pay attention to all of them, as well as watching the doors, listening for sirens, and aware that the police may be on their way. Oh yes, and rob or whatever.
Their efforts at restraint at this point are just as likely as not a panic response instead of a plan.
Somebody in the room with concealed carry raises their degree of difficulty to astounding levels. With that, the robber is almost certainly going to lose, and lose big.
As a concealed carry holder, instead of immediately opening fire, you might be able to actually plan on maximizing your defense. Things like moving behind cover or at least concealment, getting the optimal firing angle while trying to avoid hitting others in the background, or conversely using one robber as cover from another robber. And making sure there is a round in the chamber and the safety is off.
Your resistance to restraint is making the robbers degree of difficulty near impossible.
The same principles apply when confronted with tyrants as with petty criminals.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
the blogger at “Free Men Do” freemendo at wordpress
said the exact same thing ... don’t have the link handy.
another etze from him: Leave “Free Stuff” on the Highway
alone.