So, I was going to keep this a secret to prevent it from spreading and not working when or if I decided to do it, but, I thought I would say something here and see what you all think about it.
Now, I have thought about what would be required in just about all situations if one was traveling, especially when alone, and they found themselves met with hostilities.
Normal self-defense is all well and good, but, you can be out numbered and not everyone might be skilled, or even just lucky, enough to get themselves out of a situation like that. Now, gods forbid they have a gun or something, at that point, there is even a limit to what self-defense will be able to do when the person holding it is being mildly intelligent about the situation. Also, I just prefer to avoid conflict in general, simply because I really don't want anyone to get hurt, even if the person doing the hurting is me, because really, we're all brothers and sisters and in an ideal world we would be able to get along without hostility.
Yet, we don't live in that kind of world, so, here has been my idea for a solution for basically any situation that might come up, be it someone threatening you or someone trying to have their way with you, and, yes, you are going to think I am crazy because of this.
So, you might be able to fight off one or more people, but, what if they have a knife? You might still be able to fight off your "attackers", hell, you might even be able to get away if someone has a gun on you if you are lucky, but, then again, maybe not. So, what can you do to almost immediately end any confrontation, be it you are being molested, beat the shit out of, or being held at gun point/whatever situation might involve a gun?
Well, a knife might get one or two unarmed people to leave you alone, but it might not be so easy with someone who has a knife themselves, so, maybe you want to try and mace them, that is fine, but, maybe there are more than one of them and you either can't get all of them or maybe they resist the mace enough (It can happen) to still get to you. So, what do you do then, or, in that worse scenario where they have a gun and not much is going to deter that person (Mace would probably just piss them off and they could still shoot you)? Basically, go for the trump card.
What could possibly trump all of those situations, even if they were happening simultaneously to you? Well, what would you do, even if you had a gun on someone, and they take out a grenade and pull the pin? You'd probably immediately re-evaluate the situation, with the most likely assessment being that you would probably want to leave.
Now, this might seem like over-kill, and it sort of is, but, it takes care of really any situation you might encounter, and, it can be a very very cutthroat world out there, with people not giving a shit what they do to you as long as they get what they want. So, it might be considered as a calculated risk to some people.
Obviously, though, a live grenade is very dangerous, not to mention illegal. So, the people that are worried about those types of things can still technically use this method (Because pulling out a high explosive is such a complicated technique that it can be called a method ;P), simply have a dummy grenade or one that has had all of the "dangerous" parts removed. It would still, theoretically, work without it being dangerous and might technically be legal (That part I am still a little unsure about. So many states, so many laws).
So, feel free to tell me I'm a fuckin' nut job. S'all good. Just, well, keep the idea on the DL, in case it turns out to be legal to have a fully decommissioned grenade and some people want to try and use the practice, because, I mean, it's basically a cure-all, man.
- Agni
PS. I apologize for the length. I am a fiend at the keyboard, I guess.
