Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoYou shocked guys into being nice? How? I am curious about these situations.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Offer to give them a quick handy J.
RBWells@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ha!
RBWells@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Guy with knife in my face, I looked right at him and said what the fuck? He said he was trying to talk to me & I didn’t respond and I just said that a knife was NOT the way to get someone to talk to you and he put it away, walked me to my floor and said thanks & bye.
I don’t know, exactly, and just like a gun surely it wouldn’t work in every situation but de-escalation works more often than you might think.
Only once have I had to use violence, I kicked a guy off me (I am physically stronger than I look, not objectively strong but enough to surprise someone) kicked like a fucking kangaroo, so hard he hit the wall and believe it or not, it shocked him into stopping what he was doing and I left.