Reply #39: Never trust an attacker who wants to tie you up... [View All]

[benEzra]

from a self-defense article:

1. Never trust your assailant...A more recent example is the BTK killer Dennis Rader, the serial killer who terrorized Wichita for 31 years, naming himself BTK for "bind, torture, kill". Rader would convince his victims that he was only going to rob them and steal their car, but he needed to tie them up so they wouldn't call the police right away. Once the victim was tied up, he was able to do as he wished.

If the aggressor wants to tie you up, it's probably because he wants to do something that he doesn't think he can pull off with you untied. If he just wanted your money, he doesn't have to tie you up to take it.

Certainly in any scenario where an aggressor is playing out some sort of preplanned mass execution, the WORST thing to do is to do nothing and hope it somehow turns out better. Even a disjointed resistance by multiple people is better than nothing, but indecision is the same as compliance.

Hindsight is always easier than actually being in a situation, but if you have one aggressor and six victims, odds are that had they simultaneously attacked, they would have prevailed. It couldn't have gone any worse than it did.

The same would apply to someone who pulls a weapon on you in a parking lot and tells you to "get in the car." That's a flag that they want to do something to you that they can't do in a crowded area...better to run, possible get injured, but have a higher likelihood of treatment and survival at Crime Scene #1, than to comply and be taken to Crime Scene #2.