> DieHard, none of that changes the fact that your chances are ZERO if the goblin has a gun and you don’t.
Zero? What if I have done as was suggested in the article, and found some deep cover way out of the way? Or escaped thru a window? Or played Possum?
The Zero chance thing is an assumption in itself. A big one. It might be alot smarter to avoid the firefight and try to escape.
(Or crash-tackled the Perp from behind, or disarmed him, or...)
I hasten to add that, on balance, I’d rather be armed, too: perhaps with a Webley .455 Revolver. But that’s conventional wisdom, which is all based on Assumption.
Bzzzzztttt! We have determined that these methods dont work and they have been banned. You dont have that option.
Its just as crazy as saying you cant defend yourself
Bloody Hell! you cant hide a .455 webely in your sock. L0L
The Zero chance thing is an assumption in itself. A big one. It might be alot smarter to avoid the firefight and try to escape.
All based on odds and assumptions. If you're sitting in the right place at the right time and have sufficient warning of and understanding of the situation. Assuming your adrenaline dump doesn't cause you to misjudge the situation and hide in the wrong place, freeze up and not hide at all or run headlong into the shooter in your panic. The odds of reacting like a human being don't change because you are unarmed.
Panicked or not being unarmed only reduces your choices of response.
I suggest that you contact Dr. Suzanna Hupp, who survived a mass shooting at Lubys in Killeen, TX, though she watched both of her parents murdered. She followed TX laws, which allowed her to carry a handgun in her car, but not on her person. So she was unarmed and unable to do anything to protect herself or her parents.
"Playing possum" doesn't work too well when the goblin is walking around the bodies, "making sure" by shooting them in the head, even if they weren't moving.
Mark
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