[rebekah7gray]

my friend sweet talked a rapist out of committing a crime against her, so being friendly and polite does help.

The lesson we can learn from my friend is, never aggravate the enemy but try to remind the enemy of our humanity and better still if the enemy sees us praying out loud to God, like that convenience store lady did some time back and the robbers left her unharmed even though they wanted to shoot her for making so much noise when she was praying

[Joe Boucher]

How about shooting them between the eyes?
Bet that works better and more permanent.

[battlegearboat]

Sounds like a good way to get pistol whipped.

[The_Republican]

It only works with Rapists and Robbers - don’t try something like that with Demorcraps.

[M203M4]

I doubt that it is ‘being nice’ as much as it is humanization and other disruptions to the scaffolding built by rehearsal (mental or otherwise).

[Names Ash Housewares]

I dunno. This might send me running....

Then again, who is robbing who?

[dragnet2]

Try a handshake and a smile. Excessive friendliness is the key to the “Safecatch” system created by FBI Special Agent Larry Carr.

They should have used this friendly system in the North Hollywood bank robbery.

[verum ago]

let's clarify that: it only works if the 'enemy' has a conscience strong enough to give them serious misgivings about what they're doing without someone smiling at them... of course the question, then, is: how do you know that the above is true for an 'enemy' you've never seen before? What if they're unstable and smiling/being courteous provokes doubt in their mind, but instead of being enough doubt to change their mind about what they're doing it just aggravates them into further instability? What if they take it as a sign of weakness?

there are just too many what ifs with smiling and being nice to an 'enemy.' If doing so were a good method of self-defence, I suspect that it would have established as such a long time ago. The only time tested and proven way of deterring someone (or even an entire nation) from doing something is the capability to forcefully stop them from doing it and the willingness to do so, even should it be at great cost to both yourself and your especially to your enemy.

[Larry Lucido]

Todd Beamer should have tried that.

[Balding_Eagle]

The 1970’s had a rash of this nonsense.

Remember that? Don’t fight, it will just make it worse. TV programs proclaiming that was the answer to criminals. Got a lot of women raped, and a lot of pepole killed.

We are a lot wiser today.

Lead at supersonic speeds between the eyes is a service to the intended victim, and society in general.

[BuffaloJack]

I’m thankful that the passengers of Flight 93 did not heed this advice.

[Chickensoup]

Did you everhear the tape of the poor social worker who was carnapped by some freak who wanted to have fun on his birthday.

She was very nice and it was terrible to hear her die.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I've always said "You can get more with a smile and a gun then you can with just a smile"!

Regards,
GtG

[enuf]

Back in my wild partying days and nights, at the bars I learned quickly how to use kindness to disarm what I determined to be possible threats. These poss. threats would start with some idiot staring at me from across the bar, usually when I was talking to a pretty woman. I would keep an eye on them and if the potential threat continued, I would wait until they turned to take another drink or order one, and walk up (on their blind side) tap them on the shoulder, say "Hey Mike"! I have not seen you since high school, stick my hand out to shake his and say I thought that was you! About 99.9% they would have a shocked look on their face and shake my hand and tell me their name was Dan, or George or something. I would apologize, and say they looked just like Mike so & so! They would be so shocked we would have a beer together (they usually bought the beer). By doing this I could go about picking up on the babes without worrying about these idiots starting something with me,or blindsiding me. The other .1% well, it did not end well for them, I was already ready for them by having my hand extended to shake his hand. Never had to go to jail like them either. I was just being nice!

[Condor51]

Hey! Maybe if we tried this with illegals they'd just go home??

Better yet, maybe if we were all real, real, REAL nice to Rooty, he'd stay in his Long Island mansion/compound and leave us alone?

Nah, forget that part. It's too much fun slamming the cross dressing freak.

[oneamericanvoice]

There was a woman at the university I attended that was accosted, and dragged into the bushes. When the guy dropped his pants, she began laughing. He was so embarassed that he ran! Proving that laughter cures alot of things!

The guy was probably in therapy for a long, long time.

[Larry Lucido]

You have a right to your beliefs, by the way. But here are the ones that are doing the heavy lifting.

[P.O.E.]

Like playing classical music at known drug corners.

” ‘Twas Beauty Killed the Beast”

[WasDougsLamb]

How to scare bank robbers? Try smiling Why? So they can say "What the hell are you laughing at" before they blow your head off? I still think it is better (if you have no weapon yourself) to just comply with what they tell you to do and you at least stand a better chance.

[NavyCanDo]

It worked for Davy Crokett when he smiled down a bear - but that was just a movie. In real life you are asking to get your smile ruined by a led slug.

[Balding_Eagle]

Bump for the smiley solution to Virginia Tech.