Ol' Bob has something to say to you.
If I were in your position, my biggest fear would be his taking the woman and child hostage. I'd send my female companion out of the restaurant (tell her to get in the car, lock it and call the police) and hope I had the cajones to did what you did. If I was carrying, I probably wouldn't have drawn until he turned towards me with the knife and probably would have tried unsuccessfully to calm the situation verbally before offering the initial challenge. "Hey Buddy ... think about this. How 'bout we talk, huh?"
You did good in my book.All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly -- and no doubt will keep on trying.
If I were in your position, my biggest fear would be his taking the woman and child hostage. I'd send my female companion out of the restaurant (tell her to get in the car, lock it and call the police) and hope I had the cajones to did what you did. If I was carrying, I probably wouldn't have drawn until he turned towards me with the knife and probably would have tried unsuccessfully to calm the situation verbally before offering the initial challenge. "Hey Buddy ... think about this. How 'bout we talk, huh?"
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