At several hundred feet, with just one person, of course I’d run.
With three A-holes and they are close? At that point my attitude is I’m dead anyway, at least take a scumbag or two with me. Draw down on me and you’d best kill me because you have given me complete justification to do that to you.
You think running at a man with a gun in broad daylight with police sirens approaching rapidly and in full view of the public is a better idea than just staying away from the guy with the gun and waiting for police?
I see very little danger from staying away from people *IF* you think they are going to shoot you. (Which I do not believe for a minute that "gangsta' thug Arbery thought they would do.)
I see massive and very probable danger from running at a man holding a shotgun and then hitting him in the face.
If your judgement is that you are better off running at a man with a shotgun than simply stop approaching the man with the gun and wait for the police, then I think you have very poor judgement.
I think Arbery was not afraid of these men, but he was afraid of getting arrested by the cops. I think Arbery imagined himself to be a "gangsta" thug and he wasn't gonna let no white boys embarrass or hassle him and he did what a thug would do. He ran up and tried to put the beatdown on one of them.
I have a good grasp of how black "gangsta" types think because I used to hang around with several of them, and they weren't gonna let some punk @$$ white boy intimidate them with a gun.
I had one friend that actually walked up to a guy and took his gun away from him.
Brave they are, but also very stupid.