This is a disappointing thread. I expect more self-restraint from CCW holders. To speak of having a knife in one hand and a bike lock in the other...because of a litter-bug. Are you serious?! What we have here, unless I miss read it, is a person who engaged in reactive misconduct (pulling a knife and bike lock), said same which would have justified the litter-bug drawing a CCW. Did I miss something here?
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A guy gets OUT of a taxi, and confronts you with bad intentions, and I should what? not be prepared?
Yep, you missed something here.
I first pointed at the trash. I didn't say much. He rolled down the window and started spraying spit and what not.. I then made a comment, after I was commented.
What I don't want is for Taiwan to become Singapore, everybody is an adult (so I thought) picking up your own trash without big brother watching over your back.. This isn't Joe Idiot on the sidewalk, this is some thug who has lost face because he was caught doing something he KNOW he shouldn't and now has to defend his face..
"Death over trash" sounds fairly stupid, I agree; but the problem is, where "is" the line? Like one of the posters commented, what if someone cops a feel of my wife? Someone pinches her rear, do you really want to risk your life over a pinch?
The internal conflict is, do you let certain things slide, or not? Reporting the taxi, for what? The taxi driver isn't the one that littered.
When the guy comes up to you and chest bumps you and says what are you going to do about it.. When he initiates CONTACT, you don't think I should prepare myself for a conflict?
Now as for Pax's comments, probably I could have added a little bit more 007 smoothness into it and a bit more tact.. but that's not the internal conflict.
The short short short version is, "This guy needs a can of whoop--- opened up on him, but am I the one to do it?"
BTW, while some comments have disappointed me, I have not been on THR for a while (that whole marriage prep thing took up my entire life!!) but I'm happy to still have a place to discuss self-defense.
I feel that because I am able to defend myself quite well physically, I am almost at a disadvantage. Any conflicts will result in maming or death of someone.. And so conflict is the last thing I want. But at the same time, the problem seems that these thugs think, "Ha! Look, no resistance!!" and so they become bolder and bolder. No, I don't think littering is the "gateway drug" to raping and theft, but total disregard for the law, and the desire to get into the face of someone when he KNOWINGLY did something wrong, is a problem.
11 Pigs can consume an entire human body in a day right?? Just kidding!!