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Sorry about your experience as a citizen of South Chicago. Which, as I mentioned, isn’t regarded as quite the paradise as Chicago proper. And I did say living there might be different than visiting.You say you’d run well what happens when your taking a nice mid day nap. Your wife is doing some pruning in the garden. Al of a sudden you get woken up to a scream and standing in front of you is a guy holding you wife with a knife to her neck demanding all the money and your car keys. How are you gonna gather your kids and wife and leave the situation?
But your hypothetical is just another example of changing the parameters. We are talking about finding a guy in your garage who is definitely trying to steal property from you while you are evidently unarmed. And my advice is the safest advice for such a situation. If you study any professional self defense instructors, putting distance between you and the assailant is always the first and best option.
In your scenario, I’d give over the money and keys, and engage him physically as best I could to protect myself and my wife. I couldnt very well shoot at him while he’s controlling my wife anyhow. I may die. And I’m also totally ok with that. The odds are in my favor that I will never face such a catastrophically bad situation. But we all die someday. And I guess if that eventuality were to occur, then that might be my day. What’s to be afraid of?
What happens if a drunk driver in a trash truck mounts a semiautomatic rifle to his dash and starts mowing down anybody he thinks watches msnbc? Lol. We can come up with a million scenarios where a gun might save your life. And I’m not even saying anything against guns or gun ownership. I’m simply saying removing yourself from the particular situation that started this thread is the best option. And cornering people is a universally bad idea.
That time when the dude tried to take my car, I was standing in a pit of pea gravel with concrete chunks in it, wearing flip flops. Lol. I backed away (out of the pit) slowly and yelled to my wife to call the police. He ran away. But that could have gone differently in a thousand ways. It wasn’t my time yet I guess.