Tom, I’m not taking your post personally and I don’t think you’re directing anything to me per se, but I do take exception to how you “think”. It sounds to me like you’re a helluva theorist (maybe you’d make a great teacher) and while you’re at it, you like to tell a good story.
You can handle a gun but you’re worried about the big fat out of shape guy? LMAO. There is no defense to a gun if someone truly intends to shoot you and draws first. WTF.
You can handle a gun? Have you ever been shot? I have. Have you ever been stabbed? I have. And finally, I’ve been paid quite well in the past to protect people - having that ability and training, and accepting money for it, makes me no better than a paid mercenary if I can’t even care about my fellow man for free. It’s a matter of human decency. It would be like allowing a man to die of thirst while you’re holding gallons of water and are fully hydrated.
And by the way, helping that man does NOT require that you WIN, only that you intervene and stop the attack. That man could have died. While you’re theorizing, have you any idea the number of people that DIE after having been punched from falling and hitting their head? An attack that savage, when the man is not defending himself, and the attacker is continuing, is a grave situation - it’s not a simple assault.
I don’t know what anyone else here would or wouldn’t do. I think alot of people here have been quite honest saying they wouldn’t get invovled. Although its disappointing, its also refreshing from the usual false internet bravado. As for me, I’ll say it one last time - fat boy would have been collecting his chicklets scattered among the crumbs on the floor when he woke up, or maybe the parking lot, after I chuckled at his fat ass for thinking he could fight.
You seem to think an awful lot. When you’re truly trained, you act and you do so appropriately. When you think you’re trained, you think and then maybe act appropriately or maybe not at all. Perhaps you’re merely “in training”…? Or maybe you’re only trained when your family is involved.
None of the foregoing means I fancy myself some damn hero. I don’t play hero. If the other guy was mouthing off and threatening or otherwise wanted or deserved the altercation, I’m minding my own business, if and until its obvious he’s in serious danger.
And while we’re telling stories, it was just last week I took a hammer from a convicted felon who I barely knew/met when he was getting ready to clock someone I didn’t know at all - and he WOULD have hit him too. It’s all in how you handle something. I didn’t confront him, challenge him, etc. Most of this stuff is psychological - I made him think I didn’t want him to get in trouble. Now maybe that’s my initial tact with fat boy…who knows…but I’m not letting that happen. The point is, as you know, there is more than one way to handle something when you have ability and confidence. The best bouncers are the guys that can get someone to leave without force…and much of that has to do with letting a man keep his pride. But you don’t see too much of that skill anymore. Just big juiced up bullies, bullying smaller drunk people. More poodles behind fences. Poodles with a bunch of other poodles…safety in poodle numbers.
We need more sheep dogs in the world. Not fence sitters. There is a time to act and a time to mind your own business. That was not a time to mind your own business.
Maybe one day god forbid your wife or children are in danger and you’re not there. I’m sure you’d hope a sheepdog was around…and not someone that was thinking of their own self-interest, the laws of force or whether they would get hurt or not.
Some situations REQUIRE simple human decency. End of effing story. End of debate.
And to the other poster talking about pitbulls and rotts…sometimes even pitbulls are poodles at heart. You’re referring to a mere 1% of real pitbulls out there. Most predators go for the injured gazelle, the weak. Human predators are no different.