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Remember back when the antis were advising everyone to carry $20 at all times to give to a mugger so he wouldn't be ticked off?? That's the UN reccommended strategy for dealing with pirates. Just pay the ransom and nobody gets hurt.
I have been mugged while unarmed (in - where else - DC) four times in the last 30 years. Even though I had no firearm, I resisted. Once I resisted four of them into the hospital and put two on the critical list. Another guy with a knife got a brickbat fasstball to the face, followed up by a king-sized a$$whoopin that left him unconcious in an alley. Some guy tried to rob me at knifepoint in my taxi in 1977 and I accelerated to 60 and slammed on the brakes, sending him face-first into the big square hard bulky mechanical taximeter. I basically beat him unconcious and kicked him out of the cab. Literally.
In 1980 I was hitcchiking and got picked up by a carload of BGs who took me to a secluded area and put a knife to my throat. I went nuts. I got beat up pretty bad but I didnt get the worst of it, and they threw me out of the car and took off. Unfortunately, my foot got caught in the driver's seat belt and I wound up being dragged behind the car. I would be dead now had I not pushed myself up off the pavement (tearing the skin off my palms); grabbed the doorframe and used my free leg to kick the driver in the head. I then warned him that the next kick would break his goddamned neck if he didn't stop and cut me loose. He complied immediately and kept saying "yse. sir yes. sir" with his voice quavering in fear. They took off like a bat out of hell after i was loose but I managed to mark them wigh a rock through their rear window. They got caught and pled guilty to abduction and malicious wounding. I sat in the courtroom and grinned and winked at them. Punks.
"Mugger money"? ransom? Baloney. I have always believed in Jeff Cooper's rule: Resist, and there is a chance you will win. Give in, and you lose, every time. And I can tell you from experience that when a strong-arm mugger or even a pack of hoodlums suddenly realizes that they are facing not a docile sheep but an enraged madman, the shock alone gives you a trmendous advantage. Maybe you remember the old cartoon where Tweety drank the Jekyll/Hyde formula and Sylvester Cat, who was preparing a "Tweety sandwich" turned back from gettin some ketchup. was suddenly confronted with a hulking malevolent killer? The BG's reaction is something on that order. RESIST!!!
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
