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Crowds scatter when a gun comes out. No one sticks around to find out if it is real, fake or the holder is actually going use it.

• Apocryphon 9y ago
  I think the counter is that when the crowd is the aggressor, you don't know if anyone in it has guns of their own. If they see you as a threat then they'd take you out in kind, and there's more of them.
  • hackermailman 9y ago
    Sounds better than doing nothing while hoping a mob stops beating your mother because she doesn't have anything to give them. Does any transit have actual security we give them millions per year where I live and there's not a visible cop in sight ever unless they are parked in front of a busy station handing out fines.
    • Apocryphon 9y ago
      If you're in a situation when the personal safety of you or someone else you're with is directly being compromised with physical assault, you'd better be fighting back with everything you've got, including your bare fists.
      • dllthomas 9y ago
        ... maybe? You should be taking the course of action that's most likely to lead to the best outcomes. If it's one-on-60, it's not clear to me that fighting back is that course of action. (I really don't know what is best in that situation.)
• dragonwriter 9y ago
  Inside a BART car, a crowd can't scatter, so you favor the other side of the fight or flight reflex.