2018-12-09 at 9:16 AM UTC
Gun fighting like in a Western sounds stupid, especially with modern guns. I bet you'd wind up both shooting each other a couple of times.
Swords would work though, and pretty safe with modern healthcare. I'm bad at fencing though.
2018-12-09 at 9:46 AM UTC
I've never actually shot back at anyone, but I've been in that position a couple of times. And every time I see a shooting on the news, a get a little splash of that feeling, because there's nothing more helpless feeling that someone actively trying to hurt you, and not having the means to fight back.
I think bravery has very little to do with it. Gunfights are generally over in seconds, and completed from very close range. If something happens, it happens before you have much chance to choose to be scared or not. That said, I think I'd be sort of okay, but my tall ass would be hugging car cover and finding a nice big engine block to get behind. Idk how effective I'd be since with my thyroid/adrenal thing, when I get scared/angry my hands start shaking like crazy. But I have north Hollywood bank robbery dreams, so there must be some fucked up mental component at play.
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2018-12-09 at 3:44 PM UTC
I wud probably need to get drunk beforehand... for the first time, anyway.
2018-12-09 at 8:51 PM UTC
I've never been shot at but I was nearby a teenager shooting out his car at another one, maybe like 10 feet away. It was broad daylight and luckily the kid missed the other one and as far as I know didn't hit any bystanders. It was at a bus stop right when the bus was pulling up and no one acted like it was unusual but it was the worst neighborhood in the whole state, I'm not exaggerating.....
A few weeks before that a guy unloaded a machine gun at a stop sign while I was on the porch smoking a cigarette. Again he wasn't shooting at me but it was dark and I didn't notice him pull up so I can't lie I jumped out my seat and got my ass inside with the quickness....
That being said I could definitely shoot back 🔫 in a gunfight, it's my life or yours fuck that I'm going with mine, but I would be smart and try to cover before shooting back because like said before bravery could get you killed. I was also raised around guns so I know how to handle them and don't fear guns.
2018-12-10 at 12:56 AM UTC
Ajax
African Astronaut
[rumor the placative aphakia]
A friend of mine was in a “gunfight” recently. He works for law enforcement and he had a guy start shooting at him during a routine traffic stop. Leaving out details because of PI rats. I saw the footage from three different camera angles. It was definitely spooky to see since I know him. He did good though. My friend won.
2018-12-10 at 6:02 AM UTC
Yeah, the pocketed inner city gang strife was out of control with gangs killing each other over drug sales and turfs. but the suburbs were safe as it could be. but then again, white on white bullying was more when I was younger.
a skinny dude with a gun was unlikely as it is common today. so skinny dudes didn't scare buff guys who were usually the ones bullying.
now it's "I'll get all columbine up on your ass, Jock" in the past 20 years or so.
that's how I see it. different times. also white kids in suburbs doing meth and stealing from mom and dad and everyone they can. neighbors.. etc.
I think if you stole something from the neighbors in the 70s.. was their car for a joy ride. then leave it somewhere and make them think someone else stole it. Plus they got their cars back. it wasn't chopped up so some white urban kid from an upper middle class wealth could get his meth fix by dropping it off at a chop shop
Tonight some dude came up on me so fucking fast, I thought he was gonna ram me,and I started to change to the left lane, he went into the shoulder (cause I was in the far right) and then whipped around me.. new car. no doubt.. he stole it off the lot of a dealer with the paper plates on it and no temp on the windshield.. taking it where they could undo the lowjack then chop it up.
so much car thefts these days. prolly a white kid trying to get his meth money?
2018-12-21 at 7:06 PM UTC
When you have to shoot; shoot. don't talk!"
reminds me of the guy swinging the sword all fancy for a minute in Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford blasting him away.
2018-12-21 at 7:09 PM UTC
Zanick
motherfucker
[my p.a. supernal goa]
What is bravery, in this context? Anybody who possesses a gun and is shot at is likely to enter a gunfight. Bravery is not required, only desperation. Do you think it's brave to desperately shoot your way out of a situation you unwisely manufactured for yourself?
