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1 month ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)2 children
>You also really don't want to get in a street fight
Back in my "amateur" boxing days (didn't do any circuits, just sparred regularly and got recruited a bit), my buddies loved going out with me because they'd feel more emboldened to pick fights. I was always the one calming people down for exactly the reason you describe - yea, I can throw nice hook, and the guy on the other end can unzip me with the butterfly knife in his pocket.
One of my buddies nearly got his eyes gouged out before I got the guy off him. Another came to his senses when *he* started playing with the knife in his pocket when he was a little drunk and fired up, and I talked him down. He told me later he didn't even realize he was pulling it until I started talking to him - just drunken instinct to pull a weapon. Guy wasn't even a total dipshit either... just had a moment while drunk.
Fortunately we have the internet nowadays to show how wrong street fights can go. But it still bears repeating.
Smart man. Nobody knows better what violence actually is, entails, and the possible LONG TERM consequences of it more than a person who can inflict it. 99% of the time, even when you “win”, you lose.
Yeah by buddy worked at a dispensary and saw one of their security guards disemboweled with a box cutter. He said it happened so fast. Unless you want to die over nothing, make sure to deescalate as much as possible but also always have a firearm or at least knife.
Back in my "amateur" boxing days (didn't do any circuits, just sparred regularly and got recruited a bit), my buddies loved going out with me because they'd feel more emboldened to pick fights. I was always the one calming people down for exactly the reason you describe - yea, I can throw nice hook, and the guy on the other end can unzip me with the butterfly knife in his pocket.
One of my buddies nearly got his eyes gouged out before I got the guy off him. Another came to his senses when *he* started playing with the knife in his pocket when he was a little drunk and fired up, and I talked him down. He told me later he didn't even realize he was pulling it until I started talking to him - just drunken instinct to pull a weapon. Guy wasn't even a total dipshit either... just had a moment while drunk.
Fortunately we have the internet nowadays to show how wrong street fights can go. But it still bears repeating.