When a thug confronts me with a gun in a parking lot, I’m going to call him “sir”, and resolve to respond later.
“When a thug confronts me with a gun in a parking lot, I’m going to call him “sir”, and resolve to respond later.”
You don’t know what his intentions are. For all you know, he wants to shoot you just for kicks. So, it depends. If you have gun, as well, you have a choice to make.
The sooner you have a gun, the sooner you respond. And if all you have is a BB gun you might use it, like the Ukrainians have done.