‘Strewth!
It’s a sobering thought that in America every physical confrontation has the potential to escalate into somebody getting shot.
Do you Yanks find that it makes you a bit more careful about getting into fisticuffs? It would certainly make me think twice. Or three times.
my tagline says it all.
It’s a sobering thought to me that there are actually places in the world that the law does not allow citizens to protect themselves.
I have been carrying just about every day since I got out of the Navy in 1992. I also hold a 3rd dan in Okinawan Kenpo. The knowledge that I have the means and the ability to kill tempers my judgment every day. I avoid altercations when possible, but am prepared if I am forced into one, and then I act in a measured way appropriate for the situation. My wife and I were accosted in a parking garage several years ago and I subdued and disarmed all three attackers myself and held them at gunpoint for the police. I could have just as easily shot them, but the situation didn’t warrant it.