You can rest assured my “smug insolence” is secure in that your sketchy anecdotes seem to be only marginally related to the circumstances we originally considered.
I too, could paint lurid pictures, having once lived with a roommate when he was arrested and convicted for a grizzly shotgun murder. That doesn’t mean I confuse the possible with the probable to the point I risk being labeled a “mall ninja.”
Suffice to say, nothing can replace being armed with both a weapon, and the will to use it, when ones personal S hits T F.
No, there probably wasn’t enough detail in my “anecdotes” for a jaded old self-defense expert like yourself to get off.
As to dissimilar situations you are the one who claims to know what every circumstance is or will be.
I will grant that you certainly paint a lurid picture of your roommate murdering a grizzly. You’re just lucky it wasn’t a tyger.