I was mugged?!?!

[sniper7]

All you guys talking about drawing on the guys "as soon as you saw a knife" need a little bit of a reality check.

BigBear handled the situation perfectly.

It's always best to avoid violence at all costs, and at that point where the knife was shown, he had no way of knowing if any of them was packing, which in this day and age is HIGHLY probably.

So unless you're ready to go toe-to-toe 1 vs 3, you need to drop the macho talk here.

Give them your watch, give them your wallet, it's not worth your life.

At 10 yards a knife isn't really a live or die scenario. Now if the man started closing, my gun would be out in an instant.

But if I could just put the wallet on the trunk and leave, averting the risk of having to take a life or get into a shoot out with three street thugs, I'd give up my wallet every time.

Bravo BigBear, I'm very impressed. You kept your cool, and didn't draw until you had a good handle of the situation.

I'm glad you and your family are safe.

And just as an addendum, you people claiming that you would've put three bodies in the morgue would more likely than not be facing serious homicide charges.

Two of the thugs remained unarmed for all we know, and given the 30 foot distance, you could even have faced some difficulties proving that your life was in imminent danger in shooting the knife carrier.

Just something to think about.

Why don't you go to the range, at night, in a tense situtation and have a guy stand 10 yards from you. not to mention 2 other guys standing next to him. have them run at you full speed and take you down. see how fast you are and if you would got all three of them?
You WILL lose. A guy pulling out a knife on someone in the middle of the night is enough of a reality check to pull my gun out and have it pointed straight at them. that is my opinion, not a macho talk and it is what I would have done. A knife is a perceived threat which means I draw my weapon, if the guy advances at that point I am in fear for my life (if not already when I saw the knife).

you said yourself to give them your watch and wallet because it isn't worth your life...you yourself just made it very clear you thought your life was in danger, that means draw down in my mind.

just because it isn't what you would have done doesn't mean the rest of us are trying to be macho and you tell us we need a reality check. everyone is different, that is reality.

as far as the legal standpoint, are you a lawyer? do you know a lawyer that is involved in criminal law or that works within the CCW spectrum? if not then i think you should drop your lawyer talk because it would all be hearsay.

and granted this pushes the envelope a little bit, but in the big spectrum something to think about: you say you would give up your wallet every time. At what point do you draw the line after these guys show up week after week demanding money and jewelry? are you willing to live as the victim your entire life? what would be the point in carrying then...you are just going to give your gun to the guy as long as he promises not to kill/hurt you.