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Dr. db
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Ever wish you had or were glad you hadn't?
Dr. db
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This is what I mean. I had just moved into an apartment. Heard noise and gradually realized the woman in the next was being assaulted. 1980. No phone. No gun. All I could do was to knock on her door and yell. DB escaped out the back way. Wish I had a CCW then. What's your story?
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Good question!
Oh, I forgot this is a family forum.
Story :banned:
Same here. However, in my attempted home invasion, I REALLY wished I had something bigger than a handgun.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
You should definitely go big if you're going to invade someone's home. :tooth:
We were into the 2nd trip and nearly finished, in her old apartment complex parking lot, she was carrying stuff down to us (3 other guys, 3 cars) and her ex-boyfriend (and ex roommate) shows up drunk. He stands there yelling and cursing her and us both, really vile stuff about her, how she was going to, er, "reward" us after, and so on.
None of us paid him any attention, at least we tried not to, but he really got into our face. I was loading some of the gal's boxes into my car trunk and had my Ruger .357 there, and I came within a fraction of simply taking it out, pointing it at him, and telling him to run away, fast.
A few seconds, whoop!, up drive the cops, called by a neighbor who knew the guy, knew he was a jerk, and that she'd taken out a protective order against him. Naturally he was off to jail and the move was completed without incident.
It might have been otherwise, my "threatening a defenseless man" (which would have been partly true) that the cops saw. But all they witnessed were some peaceful friends helping with a move.
Yeah, it would have really been wrong for me to pull out the gun, or mostly so, this being prior to the concealed carry law in Texas so my having a loaded handgun in my car was a no-no. I might have been charged and arrested, might have beaten the rap but it would have still cost me lots of lawyering money. Yeah, the guy was sort of threatening us but we were 4:1 and he had only yelled, not made a physical move. So whether I would have been overreacting, questionable in the eyes of the law.
Thinking back later that evening, I realized "glad I didn't" and nobody even knew I was armed.
Of course, we all asked the gal why she didn't warn us and she said we might then have not helped her. Duh.
Driving in front of one of them super big box stores, where doing 5 mph is like you're speeding, and noticed a car load going the other way with 4 occupants ALL WEARING MASKS!!!!! Turning my head back to the front I saw that the next parking isle turn was going my way and turned into a handicap space, put it in park and looked back at the car, which had stopped in front of the main entrance, doors opened, masked men exited....... othe driver had a black boxy looking thing in his hand and pointed towards the entrance.
I had no cell phone with which to call police. I was armed and thought I'd only get involved if there was a life at risk.
Turns out it was teenagers doing a practical (not at all funny) joke, the driver with boxy black thing in his hand was a cam-corder, and he was filming the others who began beating an inflatable green alien (like you'd get at Spencers in the mall) with wiffle bats or something, while shoppers came and went, the least aware puzzled at the spectacle while many more I'm sure were briefly scared.
In the spirit of the "Teachable Moment" it was also a wish I had moment. If only to soil 4 pairs of ****'s.
Jack -- what you witnessed was an example of how brainwashed today's kids are. These kids were obviously good kids overall and meant no harm, but never thought it through. You were quiet and acted properly, just watched and waited.
But imagine some less stable concealed carry guy, seeing the start of the "masked robber" and who simply decided to blast away. Could easily happen. Then you'd have maybe a couple dead kids, one guy on his way to jail, and for nothing.
Pranks are fine. Just be sure of your surroundings and consider the consequences. I was thinking about that reality show -- I've never watched it -- where they try to scare the "victim" somehow, like a robber or a monster or whatever. What the hell do they do if the target keels over with a heart attack? Or grabs a chair and clubs the intruder to death before anybody can stop him? Jackass doesn't even begin to describe the label.
A few months back, I was done and pulling out from the gas station pumps when a teenage kid (high schooler), sitting in the passenger seat of his buddy's Crown Vic, thought he'd be funny and holds up a pair of nunchucks and tries to strike a "ninja pose" and facial expession (mind you, the kid likely shops in the "Husky" department of JC Penney's and is seated in a car, so the whole picture is ridiculous!) My thoughts first ran to "if only", then as I turned to exit the lot, the Crown Vic positioned broadside in front of me with the kid's door facing my '96 Explorer, I realized I had a far superior "weapon" to this kid's grain flail. Considered for a second goosing the accelerator and aiming for the door, just to make a point...
Small town, dumb kid, odds are he was just feeling his oats a bit.
Those have a special place in my angst.
I was staying in a rental house a few months back with some "kids" 18-28 actually (but really how many of them grow up before 30 now-a-days, if at all). They were flipping channels and settled on some UK reality show where the star would go into retaurants and bars (obviously in the UK) and start screaming "This a hold up!!!! Everyone on the floor, NOW!!!!" and he would score, ala bowling, how many of the British Sheeple (bowling pins) he "got" with his unarmed requests, then laugh maniacally as rushed out. The "kids" I was staying with thought it was hilarious, as did the UK studio audience. Watching from the kitchen I was appalled and I was incensed. I was incensed at being appalled.
If I could've cut one loose without damaging or endangering anything or anybody, like if a clearing barrel suddenly appeared in that kitchen, or even just a Black Cat to light off, just to see how many of those kids I would have "got" then laugh maniacally.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
That is almost as funny as the marriage vow(el)s where the preacher kept referring to the scarce (sacred) vow(el)s......
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Luis