First, I'm very glad you seem to have come thru that okay, but do you think their motive was to try to rob you or were they just out to rough you up and did they have any weapons ?
Probably some annoying and probably drunk looking for trouble. No robbing and no knifes. Mean, and with more on one. Weaklings, as proven because they couldn't win that easy. Cowards. Cockroaches.
And that sounds like one of the common reasons given for people to carry guns. God made man, Sam Colt made them equal. He gave women and old folks a fighting chance too.
Glad you are ok
What should i say? What do you want me to say?
I am trained in self defence. One always learns that what you use can be taken from you and used against you, were you made your attacker more angry with it. If you have something your opponent wil also grab something, to balance the odds.
I believe in needed violence what selfdefence is if there is no other way, and will practice it if needed (as was needed now), but i do not believe in violence for start.
I can not tell about you overthere as i do not live there. In general i understand why one should have a gun and were those laws came from.
But as outsider i also know slightly what's happening. Adn i have some questions with that.
Were does it end? Your opponent wants to win as much as you. Becoming an arms race.
If one robs you he will have a knife.
If you carry a gun your opponent wil get him a gun to. Bigger gun?
If you carry a bigger caliber he will have a bigger caliber to.
If your mag can handle more bullets he will get get him an even bigger.
If he has automatic you want that to to defend yourself.
If you use loaded points he will throw a granade.
Which makes you buy a tank?
And him missiles?
Space defence centre?
Were will it end? We all living in highly armed bunkers afraid from each other and affraid for life? Not my idea of living.
Eventually i hear about shootouts on schools and such with weapons kids overhere would never know were to get them, if they ever would get them. From angry employees shooting around and more. We don't have that kind of problems, or at least rarely.
I also see (news etc) nasty consequences of permitted possession of weapons overthere.
I rather be attacked with fists or a knife then with a gun. I rather be not attacked, but that's nirvana.
As what this topic is about.... Would this topic be here if not bullets flew around but only some fists?
What should i say? I am not judging anything, as i already said i do understand and agree partly.
But with what i know, hear and see i think an arms race will not be the wonderfull sollution either. And to be honest, i think you will catch a bullet more quick when your armed then if your not armed. Not everyone can shoot a harmless person, were being armed can give them a reason.
I think there is no fully right answer. Violence is an existing risk which we don't control. And we can not rule out all risks in life but have to live with it as good as we can.