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tallmike wrote:

israel67 wrote:Hi,
I'm 6'4", probably 85 kg (185 lbs), so no seven stone weakling.

Wow, you need to eat something. Ive got 1 inch and 100lbs on you.

Well right now man (if y'all will forgive the off-topic post), I'm just back from the dentist. He said he'd have to cut the tooth in two to get it out (cut it in two??!!! The guy is a maniac!!!), but even after six injections, he couldn't touch the tooth without my screaming in agony. So I'm on antibiotics until next week when he'll try again, and I have just taken 2 x 500mg of paracetamol.

Oh, and some of this ...




So anyway, all that to say that I don't wanna get any bigger. In fact, 185 lbs is too heavy for my liking.

The 'annoyed man's post got me thinking, and I googled for 'Gabe Suarez'. Here is a video featuring him; well worth watching ...

http://www.youtube.com/v/c0fPL4f3Eqc&hl=en

The scary thing about that film is how easy a BG with a knife can get you on the ground, and once that happens, he just keeps pumelling away with his blade at your torso, and before you know it, your vision is starting to cloud over, you're lightheaded, you feel like you're 'floating'.

You in fact are being murdered.

Very, very scary.

Particularly chilling is at around four minutes into the video, when he has the yellow plastic gun in his hand, he says that in his opinion and at close range, a knife is far more dangerous than a gun.

I hope to G-d I never have to find out.

The Annoyed Man wrote:none of that is a substitute for hands on training

Agreed. Darn, it's just takin' so long to get out there!!

Hi,
Sorry to be cluttering up your forums with questions that have probably been answered before, but I've had toothache for a week now, and can't sleep, so since it's six am here in France, here's another one for you.

I'm 6'4", probably 85 kg (185 lbs), so no seven stone weakling.

What happens if I'm walking along the street (I know: no one walks in Texas! I'll recount the story of what happened when I walked to the Synagogue in Amarillo last month, if you'd like), and a guy say 6'2", 180 lbs comes towards you. Twenty yards away, he demands money or worse, informs me that he's going to use violence against me, whilst continuing to walk towards me.

Now we're roughly the same size, so there's not the 'disparity of size' criterion that I recall seeing on the DPS website as justifying the use or the threat of deadly force, but I'm not a fighter. One - on - one, I suppose I could 'defend' myself, but what if this guy's a trained fighter? What if he gets closer and produces a weapon?

In such a situation, would I be justified in unholstering my weapon and either threatening to shoot, or even shooting if he does not desist?