> This might be good advice, but it's terrible that we live in a country where this is good advice.
Actually, it would be terrible to live in an environment where it was not good advice.
After all, its good advice if and only if you have some confidence that deadly force will not be used if you cooperate, otherwise, the advice to cooperate when a gun is drawn is bad advice. Otherwise, you should only superficially cooperate while actively looking for an opportunity to overpower or escape (neither of which has a good probability if the attacker has a gun already drawn, but if you don't expect cooperation to be effective protection, you've got no good options.)
Now, it might be terrible live in a place where it is not less likely than it is to be useful advice -- because where we live now, the circumstances in which people might need the advice come up more often than they should. But it would be good advice (with the caveat above) even if it were less frequently needed.
Actually, it would be terrible to live in an environment where it was not good advice.
After all, its good advice if and only if you have some confidence that deadly force will not be used if you cooperate, otherwise, the advice to cooperate when a gun is drawn is bad advice. Otherwise, you should only superficially cooperate while actively looking for an opportunity to overpower or escape (neither of which has a good probability if the attacker has a gun already drawn, but if you don't expect cooperation to be effective protection, you've got no good options.)
Now, it might be terrible live in a place where it is not less likely than it is to be useful advice -- because where we live now, the circumstances in which people might need the advice come up more often than they should. But it would be good advice (with the caveat above) even if it were less frequently needed.