On the one hand, you're saying crime is so "quite unlikely" to happen to you that any concern about that is "paranoid."
Yet at the same time, you claim to have "taken down" a man who grabbed you on the street.
Little cognitive disconnect here.
By the way, I don't buy your line about a boyfriend having taught you some really neat self defense moves. It's just not that easy. I am a lowly 5th kyu aikidosa and working my posterior off in the dojo two or three times a week. I am a small woman but very muscular and can easily bench press 75 pounds (at age 47). But almost any man in the dojo can clean my clock, I know it and they know it. It's a simple matter of biology and physics. I prefer to put my trust in the dependable products of the Colt Firearms Manufacturing Company. Mr. Sam called his revolver "the Equalizer" with good reason.
IF what you say is true -- which given my training and experience I doubt -- you had the element of surprise and you were very, very lucky indeed. I don't care to bank on luck . . . that's when it usually runs out.
Well-stated, AAM. I am a woman who will not wait to reason with nor try to "take down" an enraged man. My Beretta will do the job for me.
"When it comes to crime, the east side of Austin seems like West Lake Hills when compared to south Atlanta."
Thank-you for making that plain to little lass. I live "outside the perimeter" to the northeast and do not feel very safe at all. But wait....I feel "But I've lived in Atlanta and dodged bullets by catching them in my teeth" coming on as her snappy, know-it-all retort!
and yes, I have been shot at before.
My initial question still stands: Since you brought it up, do tell! Let's hear about this experience(rubber bands and spitballs don't count). I for one would like some clarification on your statement here.