http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz

Wow. He's brilliant isn't he? I wish there were more people like him roaming around carrying revolvers.

I hope he did actually say: "You don't look too bad; here's another!" to one of them. Only, it'd have been better if he HAD have given him another.

The only downside to this story is the fact only one of them got brain damage. "Soon after being released from the hospital for the treatment of his gunshot wound, James Ramseur committed another crime with an associate: he was later convicted of raping, sodomizing, beating and robbing a pregnant nineteen year old woman on a building rooftop in the Bronx."

If you were cornered by a number of muggers in the street or on the tube, and you had a gun, which would be your preferred course of action?:

a) shoot them all dead and get away with it, only having it on your conscience

or

b) give them your mobile and wallet and getting beaten up