I hope I'm not repeating a post but if someone comes at you with a stick, get a bigger stick.
Getting a bigger stick or knife or a gun does not solve the problem! Yes you might hurt them and they will back off for this particular time. But the
gungsters are going to get ya next time with bigger stick or bigger croud...
I have seen it enough times in mylife. And when you scared that something is going to happen to you, and you are thinking about it all the time, you
will eventually manifest this in your life.
I used carry a pocket knife and a pair of knumchacks bihind my colar of the shirt and leather jacket on top so you cannot see it.
Gess what was happenning to me... I was finding myself more and more involved with all kind of scraps with street gungs and bar fights.
Violence is only produces more violence. Same as goverment conrol, (rules and regulations or more police on the streets will produce more people
breaking the law... I lived it... (On the both sides of the street.)
Now, if you think positively, without being afraid of being robbed, beatten, raped and etc. If you bring feeling of security within yourself, feelings
of happiness and joy (does not matter what is going on around you or what you hear on the news channel) YOU ARE making a big change for yourself and
for outside world as well. As you start to radiate love instead of fear you will attract same experiences into your life as well.
I would like to bring an example from a movie "Pieceful worrier" there was an scene in the movie where "Socrates" and the boy were cornered in the
back street and demanded their walets. If you wanna know what happen, watch the movie...
I live my life like that. I am not afraid of gungsters or swine flue BS, I know deep within myself that nothing bad is going to happen to me.
PS. What we fear we become, when we fear to become...