yay, another point for the good guys 
- I learned when I was 18. I had never touched a gun until I joined the army. I am not saying you have to join the army to learn how to use a gun, but taking a gun safety course at 18 and then if you choose, buying one and practicing at a range or gun club. And even if a 13 year old has been shooting since he was 6, a 13 year old with a gun is still dangerous (he’s just more likely to hit what he is shooting at).
You all have a point. And anyway, I live in Canada 
Whoops, I was going to point out that the Ka-Bar, is a USMC knife, not an army knife.
You could have defended yourself with a slab of back bacon, aye.
Way to keep your head about you. Your cool actions probably saved your hide, if not your lives.
Well, this is a bit sad. A singular creepy incident, and everyone starts advocating threatening folks with a gun as a form of ‘defense’.
I’ll never understand the minds of some folk.
Especially since his non-confrontational method worked really well. Wouldn’t it be better to learn how to deal with people rather than learn to use a gun?
And I mean, like, how to talk to threatening people, etc. Do they offer classes on that, or is it encompassed in self-defense (which, when I’ve taken classes in was mostly physical stuff)
I remember one night when I was living in a studio apartment. A few friends and I were sitting around drinking beer and watching some movie. Out of nowhere this drunk guy opens my door and lets himself in to my house. He starts babbling at us, asking for liquor and grabbing up whatever’s left in the emptys. My friends and I look at each other and try to figure out what the hell is up with this guy. The only way we could figure to get him out of my apartment was to direct him to the apartment across from us that had quite a few tequila bottles prominently displayed in the window. That got him out and nobody was harmed.
We didn’t realize how screwed up the event actually was until the next morning.
Lesson learned: Always keep your door locked and use the peephole liberally.