From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 31 6:19:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A45E37B652 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from tutopia.com ([200.41.109.157]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1084 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:18:40 -0500 Message-ID: <38E4279A.7BFBC79C@tutopia.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:20:42 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jay Nelson wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > >Terry Lambert wrote: > >> > >... > >> > >> There are two rules for an unarmed martial artist, when someone comes > >> at them with a knife, and they can't avoid the situation: > >> > > > > 0) Run as fast as you can. > > > >> 1) Expect to be cut. > >> 2) Expect to kill the other person. > >> > >I had heard number 1 but not number 2. > > #2 is the only thing that allows a rational decision on #0 and #1. > No. I had an experience with some burglars in a very dangerous city. There was no time to make "rational decisions". I was not alone and we did end up running when I saw a knife, but in the first confusing moments the first idea you have is regaining control and avoiding someone (from your side) getting hurt. To end the story abruptly: I survived :). I chose to kick the guy that had grabbed my friend, the guy drew out the knife but by that time I had already suggested we should better run. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message