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JSThane wrote:

MechAg94 wrote:They only thing I can add is that if confronted with a group, distance is your friend. Most of us are not highly trained to deal with this stuff so we need time to see and react. I don't want to get in a wrestling match with anyone.

It's not just a group. If you've ever watched any MMA and seen the ground-fighting, the tricks and techniques borrowed from judo, apkido, jiu jistu, and others, it's fairly apparent just how quickly a completely unarmed opponent can subdue, even kill, another healthy, fit human being. Having a knife or a gun in one hand doesn't necessarily improve your odds, not if you're the one being attacked and ground-pounded. A wrestler who knows what he's doing can relieve you of that weapon rather quickly, if he's within grappling distance, and once you've lost the weapon (even if he throws it away!), unless you are a fighter of equal or greater skill and strength, your chances of winning, or even surviving, approach zero.

Thugs do practice wrestling, ground fighting, and the like. Do you? Can you fight back successfully against an 18-30 year old punk in the best physical shape of his life?

Hands can kill, even empty ones.