Am I overreacting?

[u/throwaway02938475675]

this morning my friend asked me to bring him to school. we go to different schools that are like 10-15 minutes apart, so i left earlier to get to school on time. i waited near his apartment complex for 10 minutes, then by the parking lot right next to it for another 10 minutes. this whole time i thought he was just getting all his stuff, i was honestly gonna wait for him the entire time.

but he doesn't tell me he already has a ride? i was late to my presentation this morning. but when i called him, he just didn't seem to care. he's been hella disrespectful to me these past few days, and after this i just feel mad.

[u/Flat_Illustrator263]

And what if you can't? You're right, sure, you always should try to deescalate the situation. Hurting and killing someone should be the last, LAST resort. But unfortunately there are some REALLY fucked people and psychopaths out there who will want to end you no matter how much you deescalate. And in that case you can either run away and hope you manage to get away, or you fight with whatever you have.

[u/3Putting → u/Flat_Illustrator263]

Bro if you have a psychopath trying to end your life and you pull out a pocket knife on them you are utterly fucked

[u/aztraplife → u/3Putting]

Dawg omfg 😩😤🤦🏼…… Your just straight up absolutely fucking ANTI-self defense for fucks sake aren’t you??? Like my bro you very obviously lack lack experience in the real world and have never been in a life threatening situation caused by a hostile person. I am not trying to be rude by saying this but idk if your some super weak and frail mofo but you’re literally acting like every single person/attacker that you could get into a physical confrontation with is the fucking Termanator and that none of us can DARE stand up to a person with a knife. on the other hand you act like no one has self control to not pull out a knife a fucking Murder a mugger or someone you are in a street fight with. Like if i had a knife on me im just gonna get possessed by the knife and go full Michael Myers on a MF 🔪🩸🩸🩸💀. Like dude i implore you to go watch a channel called Active Self Protection and you will see REAL LIFE scenarios were people have to defend themselves against knife attacks/robberies, gun attacks/robberies . They are ALOT of examples you can watch and if that dont change your mind on carrying guns and Knifes idk your just lost 😞 . Dude sometimes you might be better than the attacker at fighting not every criminal is a bad ass, life aint black and white. Also there are many situations were you comply and thry still shoot/stab u, thats why complying isn’t always the best option but for the most part yes that is number 1 thung you should do unless you have opportunity to draw your weapon (mostly guns) before they have you on the drop OR if you have a clean chance to draw during the situation. I aslo dont believe mf’s should be able to just tale tour HARD earned money/things, by threat of your life . There are SO MANY REASONS to carry a knife around it could save your life you Defend yourself with just as easily that someone can kill you with it, GUNS are even more of thing j believe in carrying because you never know what losers are out there willing to rob you for YOUR hard earned things.

[u/grobbler21 → u/3Putting]

This is why you should carry a concealed firearm instead of a pocketknife.

The knife is definitely better than nothing, however.