I'd rather not be the sort of self-absorbed ass that assumes every person they happen across is as interested in them and their shit as they are?
Self preservation instincts are synonymous to narcissism with you?
Except, k'now, lack of availability. And I gotta say, if I had to choose between getting into a shootout with a mugger who also had a gun versus running the hell away from one who had a knife or table leg or whatever... I know which situation I'd rather be in.
In a situation where I cannot run the hell away I'd take having a fighting chance over being at my attacker's mercy
Well I'm not 100 kilos but I do tend to be walking down the street at night & I don't particularly want to be shot at or have a gun pulled on me. I'd actually rather be unarmed, I'm not a woman but I don't see why you think that makes a heck of a difference to your question, guys do get mugged as well.
Because the average woman is 6 ft shorter than the average man and half as heavy, can't run away or fight as unless their attacker's been doing too much drugs they will be in better shape and better strength. Guns are pretty good equalizers in that regard. I suppose it's a matter of opinion; I do not have the option of legally being armed but would have appreciated it in the past, less so now. And yeah sure guys get mugged but guys have an easier time getting out of muggings and not getting into them in the first place. They don't walk around with as much stuff to mug outside of city centres where all the police are and what stuff they've got worth jacking is not worth fighting some big bloke over. Snatch a handbag, don't require much effort and you've just nabbed a phone, bag, purse and lol, if you kept a gun in there they're pawning that too xD
Of all the muggings of women in my family the three most notable ones, one was solved by wrestling a knife from a weak junkie, one was solved by tricking the mugger into thinking she only had a fiver and the last jumped into a river leaving a very shocked mugger behind and a story which the police just loved. There was also a stalker who panicked and up and run when she started loudly shouting down the phone there was some fucking mug trailing her
For guys? Nah, step 1 to not getting mugged for a guy is just look as big and poor as fucking possible and step 2 is bring some m8s
WHEN WILL OBAMA END THIS SICK MADNESS?