I've been in one (out in the street), and barricaded inside my house for 3 days from another one.
In the first one I was a young adult and I ran - it's always good to have an escape route planned ahead. At least one. I did, because I knew a mom might form, so I had already planned my route back to safety by thinking about where the least people would be, and it worked.
The barricades held too, with no shots fired thankfully.
Before I knew how to defend myself better, when people would mess with me I would act crazy and scare them. I would turn around and walk toward them and say things that implied if they didn't back off I was going to go nuts attacking them, and didn't care if I lived or died. I was angry enough, and big enough, to pull off this bluff quite a few times back then (I really *didn't* care a lot of the time). Possibly sometimes it was because males had qualms about hitting females, but not in most of these confrontations. That tactic would not work with a mob, though....
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