“If you aim a weapon at someone else, you raise the stakes. Whoever it is has to assume you will—or may, at least—pull the trigger. If she’s willing to back down, well and good. If she’s not, and some people won’t be, she may decide to go for broke, instead. If she’s got a weapon of her own, she’ll use it. If she doesn’t, she’ll try to take your weapon, and if that happens, she’ll probably use it against you. So never think for a moment that simply waving a gun at someone is going to magically make them do whatever it is you want them to do. “But the flip side of that is that you’d better be
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