Preeetty sure preventing that is the big reason to carry concealed (well, and there are social/legal reasons to keep your weapon hidden). The attacker has to find it on you first before they can take it away.Metahive wrote:Worse, what if he had discovered it and stolen the gun along with my wallet?
No, that pretty much is the case, if you are foolish enough to provoke them by fighting. Read the article from No Nonsense Self Defense. If you do not comply they will cut or stab you. They will place the knife in a position where they can immediately attack if you do not comply, like at your neck the way Metahive's attacker did. You avoid those situations by being aware, knowing how to recognize different levels of alertness in yourself, and knowing which situations are more and less dangerous, like being out at night in a bad neighborhood vs being in the park in the suburbs in the middle of the day with lots of people around. For example. But trusting that simply because your attacker has something other than a gun means you can overpower them is foolhardy and defies known facts about criminal attackers, and knives. Like guns, they aren't limited by the strength of the wielder, but by the sharpness of the edge. Its a highly time tested technology in its own right. It predates recorded history even.Jub wrote:That presumes that your mugger or the person assaulting you wants to harm or kill you, and that isn't always the case. A knife, just like a gun, can be shown to get you to give up your goods without a struggle.
And this doesn't nullify the use of weapons for self defense, because there isn't always an option to retreat or avoid confrontations. I know people who have been in these situations, and their stories back this up. For instance, someone I know was on two occasions blocked by would be assailants on/near roads, using their vehicles as a means of preventing escape. This person twice brandished weapons to deter his/her would be attackers from following through on their attempts to assault them (and bear with me, for confidentiality's sake that's all the detail I will go into, and gender ambiguity is intentional).
Read the articles, jerk. I will not debunk this again. An unarmed victim against an attacker with a knife is virtually defenseless, because the blade can cut through all of your defenses. There are no hit points protecting you like in a video game. The best you can hope for is a minimal hospital bill for stitches, it is NOT a fight. Similarly, a gun wielding mugger also has to come within reach so you can hand off the loot, but you absolutely should comply and call the cops afterward because their finger will be on the trigger. Self defense in these situations are not what concealed carriers keep a gun around for, because they aren't stupid like you are and understand that its not worth their life to fight that particular kind of attacker. On the other hand, someone like a home invader or a convienience store robber don't necessarily have such an unfair advantage, but are still dangerous enough a weapon can be useful for the victim.Even if a person with a knife does want to harm you, he's still within your reach and that gives you a better chance to respond than if the same attack was carried out with a shooter pumping rounds into you from a few feet away. If a person wants you dead from ambush that have options either way, but one gives you a slightly better chance to reply.
My apologies, you did indeed fail at quoting and I didn't notice. Carry on.I already did, I just failed at quotes so I'll ghetto edit it in here.
