Oddbean

Were they trying to rob you? That’s a crazy ass story. I got jumped and stabbed once but they waited until my back was turned to attack. I was able to fight them off and they got spooked and ran away. In that scenario I was lucky I didn’t go down as things would’ve gotten a lot worse. I’ve thought about it and for sure I couldn’t have accessed a gun while the two dudes were assaulting me. And getting a hypothetical gun taken from me in the melee would’ve made things a lot worse. Guns can definitely save your ass. I’m not denying that. But I think most people have never really needed a firearm and probably won’t. And in some cases the firearm can make things worse. But in your situation it sounds like it saved you.

Yeah it was a car jacking at an AirBNB I was staying at. The part that still kind of haunts me is that my inaction led to a woman on the other side of the complex I was staying at (this was a gated community!) actually getting car jacked after they ran from me. I've never met her but the cops told me she was ok other than being shook up. I guess it turns out they were a part of some mexican gang because the cops picked them up and asked me to come back to Texas a couple weeks later to ID them but there's no way I could point them out. The first hit I took from the stick literally launched my contact out of my eye so I was fighting blurry the rest of the encounter.

Was giving up the keys ever an option? I’ve thought about this in life and I think the best option is to just give a robber with a weapon whatever they want and move on. Even if you’re concealed packing if someone pulls out a gun and demands your stuff the safest and smartest thing to do is just give them the goods. Easily replaceable. Not remotely worth getting shot imo

I definitely could have but there was important things to my business at the time in the car that would have made for potentially huge issues for others that relied on me but def not worth my life. Lots of lessons about preparedness came from this encounter.