Yeah, he wants this to be about his view that women believe their lives are more important than men's lives. It was never about that, never about gender. It's all about what would a person, any person, do to save someone they loved from being brutalized and possibly murdered.
This I agree with.
Some individuals seem to think the most logical course of action is to let the criminal do whatever he wishes to said loved ones, as long as what the criminal wishes to do is to someone else rather than him. :shrug:
This is kind of thing I can't entirely get behind.
While everyone here is preening around -- men and women both -- about how they'd do this, or they'd do that, here's the reality: most of you probably wouldn't.
And here's another reality: that isn't necessarily the wrong decision.
We're talking about a situation that's very close to "certain death" if you try to do anything.
Here's the thing. If the guy kills you (which he almost certainly will), what the hell are you gonna do to stop him from harming your family?
Not only would you die completely in vain, but now your spouse has lost a partner and/or your children a parent.
Great job. But at least you went out with comically gigantic balls, eh?
If someone has the means of doing something,
and they feel able to make a play for it,
and they're willing to take the risk on just making everything worse, good--no, GREAT for them. I wish everyone was in that situation.
But the cold, hard truth is that most people aren't. When someone is holding a gun to your head, there are a very limited number of ways you can improve the situation, and in any given circumstance, you probably don't have access to any of them at that moment.
The best thing you can do is get some defense training (a gun by itself won't help if he sees you make a move) and just hope you never wind up in that situation.
What would I do? What would I expect a man to do?
The answer's the same: depends on the situation.
But in the majority of situations? Someone literally holding a gun to the other's head?
I would expect either him or myself to sit the **** down and not get themselves killed trying to pretend they're Superman.
Just being real.