You think that was the “cheap shot”? You must not have read the story.
So as long as it fits our personal narratives as related to individual incidents, fully knowing we have very little factual information on the story itself, then the MSM has all of a sudden regained an ounce of integrity and this story as written is gospel? Is that what you’d have me believe? lol
If someone, anyone, asked me to write a list of just 10 reasons why I carry a pistol every day, I’m 100% sure that one of my reasons would be “in case some crazy person ever tried to stab me”, and it would be near the top of my list.
Crazy people are literally everywhere on a daily basis whether you notice them or not, and from my personal experience, at least 80% + carry some type of knife on their body daily, generally a kitchen steak knife just shoved in a pocket. Anyone with even the slightest amount of street experience or knowledge can attest to that fact alone.
Now even without the included additional details that we do know, of being in a strange house with multiple occupants, called there not for an ‘emergency’ but to help talk someone down and or evaluate if they’re having some type of psychotic break, thus determining if they also need to call an ambulance and get this person further medical assistance that they’re not equipped to give.
And while attempting to render this assistance, the person in question flips their shit, grabs a knife, all while contained inside a small room in a strange house and having to decide there and then in a nanosecond if you will live or die, right here, right f***ing now, today, the next 2 seconds in time will decide my fate, the fate of my children, the fate of my wife, and still have enough time in your head to think about why this person is trying to kill me?
You don’t get time outs on the street. You don’t get to say ‘ok hold on now, let me think about this for a minute so I don’t f*** it up’. What choice would you have made?
Personally I would not sacrifice my life and the fate of my family simply because I tried to help a stranger and they in return tried to stab me for it.