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Originally Posted by crisis
What you call dodging is what I call reasoning. The presence of a gun when someone spits on your daughter should not be an influence. That it is, supports my view that the presence of a gun can escalate any situation disproportionately.
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Whether or not I was carrying a gun would not be an influence to how I would respond to someone spitting on my kid.
If the assailant decided to then escalate the situation, well, he'd then be doing so at his own peril. I need to be able to assume that anyone who's psychotic enough to do something like that is psychotic enough to be ready to "raise the bar"; maybe the guy's got a knife? If I'm not prepared to counter that, then I'm unprepared at
my own peril...
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I would probably tell him to fuck off and get my kids away from the situation.
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Oooooooooohhhhhh... Someone else who expects to protect his family by yelling at an assailant.
That's a pathetic response...
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Firstly so they may not be caught up in further unpleasantness and secondly so they don’t have to witness their father turn into some macho asshole who cant contain himself and has to make public displays of heroism to confirm his manhood. Some may see that as cowardice I know but I will live with that.
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yeah, I'm sure they'd much rather watch as Daddy gets gutted like a fish when, had he been armed, he could've prevented it...
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What isn’t funny is how you believe it is quite acceptable, even preferable to carry on like a high school jock in front of ones kids to show how tough daddy is and risk the confrontation potentially turning lethal rather than leave what is a reasonably trivial matter and protect from any real harm.
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If someone spits on my kid, that person isn't going to walk away. Period. What
you would be showing your kids is that Daddy's afraid to defend his family.
No wonder they have no respect for you...