Yes, but the expected outcome of being in a fight or pulling a deadly weapon is much worse than the expected outcome of not being in a fight in the first place.

Yes, but the expected outcome of being in a fight or pulling a deadly weapon is much worse than the expected outcome of not being in a fight in the first place. I get you; someone can look helpless but be packing a Desert Eagle .50 and prepared to use it in any trouble. I don’t see how that is an advantage over not looking helpless, unless the idea is to attract trouble and then kill it.