How to deal with crooked people

[EgoDeath]

Yea sounds like a bunch of tough guy BS to me man. Sounds like you need to grow up. Plenty of normal citizens stop those robberies too. Plenty of normal citizens also get themselves killed attempting to stop those robberies. Goes to show, veteran or not, bullets can kill you. A lot of guys think they know themselves and how they'd react until it actually happens. Would be interesting to see how you'd live with yourself if you got someone else killed trying to be the tough guy who "won't give in." It's not about giving in though. It's about the fact that my wallet with, maybe $60 in it, ain't worth the chance to die or get someone else killed because I think I have a point to prove. I used to think like you, trust me. But I've been through it enough times to know I was wrong. Hopefully you never have to learn that lesson.

No, sounds like you have been playing too much street fighter, and thought it was real.  You're the one yappin about being in shootouts and such.  You can always tell the men from the boys when the kiddies start talking about their street wars.

You're right, bullets can kill you.  But they don't have to.  I don't look for fights, but I don't run from them either because it's counter productive.  If you let a bully, "bully you" then you might as well put a bullseye on your back because they or someone else will do it again.

One thing I learned way back in high school, you give it to the bully and he'll always be there as a bully.  There was a little gang of kids that would pick fights.  One day they actually called me and said they were coming over to fight me.  I said "come over."  Got ready to go, stood my ground, and no on ever had to throw a punch.  After that, we were friends all through high school and even to this day.  Why?  Because I don't think like "prey."  It doesn't mean I want to be a predator, but when I have to flip that switch I do.   Like I said, I'm not the one they're looking for.

Wow, more tough guy grandstanding from the military vet (separating the boys from the men... funny.) You've been in a war? Cool, you're tougher than me dude. Point taken.

Who is yapping about street wars? I said I've been in some situations where I've had to defend myself. They're situations I wish never happened because they've changed my life for the worse and I've seen enough that it's usually the guys who think they'd fight back that'd be the first to run. I've also dealt with those situations enough mentally that I'm comfortable talking about them, which I really haven't even done in detail. Who's yapping besides you, tough guy? If you've seen combat and prefer to refer to it as, "spending time overseas," that's your business. Maybe you just haven't learned how to deal with what you've been through. And if that's the case, I hope you get some help for it. You probably know better than I do that too many vets go without the help they need, sometimes because they tell themselves they don't need it, sometimes because they can't get it. The government can be shitty that way sometimes.

You equating a high school fight to an armed robbery situation shows how insanely disconnected you are. Thinking that some gang banger with a gun is equivalent to a schoolyard bully who just needs to be stood up to is INSANE. These kids out here, some of them anyway, will shoot you and your wife without thinking twice about and LAUGH AT YOU. They're not gonna learn any lesson because you "stood your ground." You're fuckin delusional dude. I truly hope you wise up one day or that you never find yourself in a situation like this. How absolutely insane. The fact that you take pride in thinking this way is even crazier.

Or maybe I'm crazy. Maybe you'd knock the gun out of his hand, take him down and hold him til the cops get there. Then he'd learn his lesson and tell all his gangbangin' homies not to fuck around. And you'd be the hero. Just maybe. But guess what man? Probably the fuck not. More than likely you just get yourself or someone else hurt and that masked punk goes on about their life not thinking twice about what they did to you.