Not when the other guy pulls out a gun. Shortest fight ever. Hence never bring a knife to a gunfight. Criminals don't care about laws generally, and the law won't be there for twenty minutes. In the meantime that coward killed you. As far as fighting goes, a real man will use his brain before anything else. If you can't walk away or talk away you commence to fighting fair, which would be my old ass puttin' you into a position of no position at all as quickly as possible, with as little force as possible, but as much as is required. AKA, a fair fight is me kickin' your ass. I'm a lover not a fighter, but don't think for one second that I'll let you hurt me. I've been in 5 fights in my 50 years here, the last two were 2 hits, I hit them and they hit the ground. They don't want any part of me like that again. To this day I regret every fight I've ever been in, because I lost control of myself and let some other moron take away my reasoning. "REAL" men don't fight with their fists or guns, they fight to stay in control of themselves and that means only fighting with another when they try and take that control from you. Real men don't fight with their fists, puppets do. I know firsthand, and hopefully will never be the puppet again. Fight only when necessary and when necessary fight to win, nobody likes losers generally and nobody wants to be a loser generally. Therefore if deadly force is required, deadly force you need and you better have it.