sheer potentiality

He won.

From the Seattle PI (also available at a shitload of sources at Google News):

ATLANTA — A former Marine used a pocket knife to fend off a group of would-be robbers, killing one and wounding another, police said.

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One of the attackers had a shotgun and another had a pistol, Stephens said.
The suspects caught up with Autry, who yelled for help and pulled a knife out of his backpack. He kicked the shotgun out of one of the attacker’s hands and stabbed both a 17-year-old girl who jumped on him and a man who also attacked him.

The suspects fled in their car but police found them later at a hospital where the girl was pronounced dead. The man stabbed in the incident was in critical condition, Stephens said.

(Emphasis mine.)

HOLY SHIT! It takes quite the badass to, when accosted by armed robbers with guns, grab a pocketknife, flip out, and stab them. Normally I wouldn’t endorse this kind of response to this situation, but holy shit. If you can pull it off, go for it. (Here’s a tip though: unless you’re a Marine or other certified badass, you can’t pull it off. And no, being a black belt in Tae Kwon Do doesn’t make you a certified badass, at least not to enough of a degree to stab armed robbers.)

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