You would have done better to have unzipped your daypack and grabbed your 9mm pistol. But I guess that depends on what state you live in. Here in the People's Republic of Maryland ... I can't conceal carry a nerf gun.
Sometimes is pays to be a scofflaw.
I carry a Kimber .45 here but that early morning bike ride was going to a school and...even here in Alabama they have us kowtowing to GFZs.