"Gun attacks, what can be done?"

BUY A TACTICAL NUCLEAR DEVICE! That'll show em!

Nuclear attacks. What can be done?

BAN IMMIGRATION OF LEBS AND ASIANS!

NO TABBOULEH! NO SUSHI! NO NUKES!

After reading this thread, you guys are going through the same problems as South Africa.
This knife thing, is becoming pandemic and seems to be the "in" thing with gangs and teenagers. If one looks back at the 50's and 60's it was the same, threatening with knives or other pointed objects.
It's all very well, going to self defense classes and yet this will not help you, should you be faced with two or three assailants, unless of course you are Bruce lee.
One cannot defend one's self if the law prevents us from carrying some type of weapon to defend ourselves, in fact we are not allowed to fight fire with fire, we have to take whats coming and hope we don't die in the process? It's the same ol'situation, you get attacked by someone wielding a knife, you get a lucky punch in and accidently strike him in the throat and kill him, guess who goes to prison?
Justice is sweet no? In other words, according to law, you have take a knife in the gut and try to ward off the person with your bare hands while he/she slashes madly at you and hope he/she tires out before cutting you to ribbons, yeah, right, like hell this will happen! Man or woman holding a knife to me, one chance is all I'll need to take them out.

SPANKY,

Yeah like South Africa except completely not.

South Africa has a sky rocketing crime rate, we do not, South Africa has over fifty years of violent repression of the majority of its population, we do not, South Africa is still trying to find its place after a peaceful revolution, we are not.

According to the latest crime stats from NSW, most categories of crime have remained stable over the last two years with the exception of Murder which has risen by 1.2% and motor vehicle theft which has fallen by 3.5%

Spanky, if you're confronted by a weapon yielding youth, you don't knock him out or hurt him. Heaven forbid. You should calm him down, then ask him if he had a deprived childhood or if he was abused & then, if he is still inclined to stab you, you position yourself so that he can attack you, being mindful that he doesn't get hurt. At the end you offer him your wallet & your keys. That's how the academic do-gooder leftist social engineers want you to behave. We once remanded a young chap in custody (JP Mag situation) for thrashing a big shop & putting the shop out of action for two days with $80,000 damage. A legal aid chap then recommended he not be sent to the lock-up but given an apprenticeship instead. "to get him on the right track" There were several decent young chaps in the community who couldn't get an apprenticeship let alone a job & whilst the useless mug got rewarded with an apprenticeship which he attended for 6 weeks. You can imagine the incentive to the good fellers. Can anyone dig up one of those do-gooder "experts' statements from say, 25-30 years ago ? would be good to rub it in now.

Chaps,

You have to learn to defuse situations.
Bob Brown does a good line in 'Harm Minimisation' techniques.
Learn from him.

People must realise that if they resist the knife armed assailant that they may harm or even kill him, this would never do.
The victim should at all times be cognisant of the fact that the attacker may have had a deprived childhood and anyway what gives the victim the right to assume that just because the attacker is threatening his life that the attacker actually intends harm?

He may be only bluffing; should the victim call his bluff he may well be doing his attacker an injustice.

The victim should consider if the knife is really sharp.
Does it have a point that will easily enter the body?
Is it long enough to reach a vital organ?
Is his life really more important than the attacker's?*

*In the interest of political and gender correctness all masculine references in the above should also be read ss feminine.