Again, we're back to this.....they did NOTHING but hope and pray THIS goblin held his fire, they did NOTHING to ensure he wouldn't.
That isn't clear to me. I couldn't hear what they were saying or see what everyone was doing. You seem to equate 'not shooting' with 'not reacting'.
I don't know, but their intuition was right, no? Don't you use intuition and basic human psychology to predict others' actions?What was the special 'Good Guy Robber' sign he gave, that he wasn't going to shoot anyone?
You keep ACTING as though YOUR way is guaranteed to get you home safe......yet you've been provided statistics and examples of MANY situations where it's done nothing but gotten folks killed.
My way is to use your best judgment when deciding whether to fight or not. Your way seems to be to always fight. No approach is guaranteed to always get you back home safely. But using your judgment to determine the wisest course of action is probably a better course of action than always shooting.
I think it's been established that there are statistics (and hence examples) and experts on both sides of this. Looking at the studies, the devil is in the details. The definitions of resistance and whether the resistance 'provoked' further violence vary widely. I mentioned one and the response was to attack the author as biased rather than the study as flawed. I don't intend to keep posting studies because I do not believe it would be possible to alter your opinion by any number thereof. Until the DOJ gives an authoritative opinion, it would serve no purpose. No one's mind would be changed.
I'm not the original source of that advice. It came from the U.S. government. It worked well for a long time in terms of keeping deaths down. Then things changed.The passengers on the flights on 9/11 were following your advice.....and we know how that turned out.
Your use of 9/11 is inflammatory. But I fail to see how it helps your point...both those passengers who resisted and those who did not died in the crashes.
If this is so, why isn't the advice to resist common from police depts., employers, etc.? Just the opposite is the case.And we are still devoid of an equal number of contrary examples of resistance GETTING folks killed.....yes, they have happened.......but not NEARLY at the same rate. The numbers seem to support our position.