In other words, you would try to stay inside, where you might have cover or help from other good guys.
If I were the boy who got shot, and had bad intentions towards the cops, I would likely have made a move in the rest room, where I could use deceptive compliance, the confined space, and them as cover against each other and ended it as quickly as possible. But thats me. Id have done the same thing outside, but you lose the advantage of proximity, and using them as cover against each other.
Remember the old saying "if you find yourself in a fair fight then your tactics suck". That goes double if you're on the wrong side of an unfair fight. So do everything you can to improve your tactical advantage or reduce your tactical disadvantage.
Well, absolutely. You'd be foolish if you didnt.
My whole point in the switch was, it doesnt matter who you are, or what you are, a fight is a fight, and once youre in it, your head had best be in the right place, and you had best be in it to win. Everything else is secondary. Youre points are well taken, and youre absolutely right about what you said above.
We keep hearing that we as lowly citizens, have a duty to run away, or do things that are often contrary to winning or prevailing, which is BS, especially once things start. If there was an opportunity to do so prior to that, yea, maybe, but even then, not all places require you to do so, if youre within your rights of being there. You dont always have the opportunity to run away, and youre still within your rights of defending yourself if you dont. Of course at that point, defense isnt where your head should be anyway.
Im not saying you shouldnt be aware, and avoid trouble when you can, you'd be a fool if you didnt. But once its understood that there is going to be a fight, then you should put everything but winning the fight, out of your mind, and do everything necessary to win it. And youre right, if cheating, and doing everything you were always taught "wasnt right", isnt part of that plan, youre really way behind the curve.
If that boy had any reactive shooting under his belt, and wasnt drunk, and had a real gun, and accepted that it was going to be a fight, and acted decisively, deceptively, and with explosive aggression, those cops wouldnt have had a chance. The women would have been DRT, and I doubt the other officer would have even cleared his holster.