Movie images flashed before me after reading this, like Dirty Harry "do you feel lucky, PUNK?" or Crocodile Dundee when the little idiot with a knife tries to rob him.
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] -- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)
“I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” ~ Nathan Hale (final words before being hanged by the British, September 22, 1776.)
If at first you don't succeed -- skydiving is not for you
Apparently they've had an upswing in armed robberies in the Springs over the last year or so. Seems that way reading the police blotter anyway.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Nathan Fillion, "Firefly"