Robert said:
I somehow feel that I would have zero remorse for blowing away someone that started hacking at me with a machete. The other two idiots should consider themselves very lucky they are not dead.
I wouldn't have remorse, either, Robert.
When we were living on our sailboat anchored in Samana, we had several run ins with thieves, always armed with a machete.
In one, one asked for my money and watch and when I was slow in responding, he hit me across the side of the head with the machete, cutting off the bottom of my ear, fracturing my jaw and leaving me unconscious for 45 minutes. It happened very fast and caught me completely by surprise, and to this day have no recollection of of anything from his first demand for money and my coming back to consciousness, but if I had been carrying a gun, I would have saved myself a lot of expense in jaw repairs.
One night Barbara heard a noise on deck and when she through open a deck hatch to see what was causing him she so surprised the machete armed man on deck that he fell into the water. Unfortunately, all I had was a flare gun, which I fired at the man in the water, but if I had pistol, I would have used it.
By the way, after that night-time visit there were no more. I was told by a coronel in the army that word got around that we were prepared to shoot.