dead street fighter or docile survivor?

Walking home one very dark and late Wednesday night,it was exactly on the night ac Milan and liverpool played the final of the European champions league,i had just gotten to the last bend that led to my house when this very short(i call him very short cos i am what you would call short and i was still taller than this midget)jumped me and held a gun to my mid-riff;should i jump him back or should i play obedient;i did the right thing,a friend of mine was shot 2weeks later by possibly the same fellow.
Many marriages have been destroyed by cases where the wives have been harassed and the men have stayed quiet;it hurts when someone humiliates you and your husband cant do anything about it,but would you rather have a dead husband than a living coward?