JerryM said:
I am not sure even the martial arts experts here could retain their weapons if two or more physically strong BGs grabbed you by surprise.
Any
credible martial arts system is going to stress
avoidance as a key element.
OC, at least in my opinion, is not the most prudent way of practicing avoidance.
The average person isn't equipped to go toe to toe with heavy weight street thugs. Especially multiple ones.
Let me use myself as an example. Back in the day I made quite a few 'fighters' hit the puke bucket, just by having them try to go a full 3 min boxing round with me. I didn't lay a glove on them either, other than blocking. All I did was dance around and yell 'Hit me you ____! Hit me!' Granted they were wearing gloves and couldn't gouge my eyes out, or use grappling techniques, nevertheless they weren't in as good a shape as they thought they were. Some of them could hit hard too, ouch.
So as you might surmise, I'm in fairly good shape and reasonably skilled at martial arts.
Now, lets suppose I'm OCing my favorite 1911 while eyeing the dollar menu at McDonalds. Then the man in the following video decides he wants to steal it.
Sucker puncher gets life sentence in Texas
Now what do you suppose I could have done to stop him? Well, short of not being there, nothing.
tl;dr OC
is not a prudent way to avoid trouble.