AZ: Woman Openly Carrying Glock Threatened by Armed Felon; She Kills Him

Gun Watch ^ | 17 August, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[metmom]

Her dropping the drink may have distracted the perp.

[waterhill]

wert the ferk

[Portcall24]

Do you know which book this is in regarding the match?

[Bulwyf]

I wish I owned his books. I’ve been reading them since I was in grade 5. He led to my love of westerns heh.

This story is great and a picture of how being situationally aware and keeping a cool head can save you.

[major_gaff]

Carolann's father was a Marine. He taught her well.

Ooo Rah! Out-freakin'-standing!

[Mr. Douglas]

At an estate sale in Seattle, I paid a hundred bucks for his “entire collection” in softbound leather. It looked like most of them had never been read. Boxes and boxes of books. I’ve only read a few of them, though I have a lot of his stuff in audio form that I got form torrents. I fall asleep to them. I have for years.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Thanks to the Second Amendment, she didn’t need a hundred, high paid Secret Service agents to defend her. My kind of woman. She should run for president.

[marktwain]

Louis L’Amour may have saved my life on night.

I thought about something he wrote, and changed my actions.

I was later told I came very close to being shot.

[Uncle Sam 911]

“armed man” That narrows it down to the usual suspects.

[Rannug]

I have most of his books on my Ipad. He was a great, accurate, writer.

[Mr. Douglas]

I’m not sure, but i think he’s the one from whom I got the phrase, “an armed society is a polite society”.

[Rannug]

Condition One. Every time, every where.

[Moonman62]

He was hit in the abdomen.

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I’ve read that gut shots hurt the worst. What a shame.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Every single trainer I’ve been with is against open-carry.

The thug noticed, he chose poorly, but it could have ended a lot worse for this woman.

It’s always better to be gray then black or white when it comes to CCW.

[marktwain]

Firearms trainers tend to focus on tactics instead of strategy. It is completely understandable.

Strategically, open carry has many advantages, the primary one being that it fosters a general awareness of an armed society.

Tactically, concealed carry and open carry both have advantages that are different.

Most firearms trainers train people to obtain a concealed carry license. That is another reason they focus more on concealed carry. There are even a few states that prohibit open carry. (precisely 5, but there are others that effectively prohibit it through extra-legal means)

[Opinionated Blowhard]

He put the gun up to my neck and said, 'It’s loaded, don’t move,’ Miracle said. I dropped my soda, released my gun from my holster and cocked it. I shot him and ran in the opposite direction.

She drew and shot with a gun up to her neck and the perp behind her? Wow. That takes some guts. My hat is off to her.

[marktwain]

“She drew and shot with a gun up to her neck and the perp behind her? Wow. That takes some guts. My hat is off to her.”

We do not know the perp was behind her. I suspect he was in front of her. He asked her for a cigarette.

[alfa6]

an armed society is a polite society”.

That was Robert A. Heinlein in the novel 1948 novel Beyond This Horizion

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Mr. Douglas]

Thanks!

[Corpus_Delicious]

From my reading of it, the thug was behind her.

...the suspect, Frank Taylor , tried to bum a cigarette. She told him that she didn’t have one, and then seconds later, Miracle said, she could feel the barrel of the gun against her skin.

If he was in view, that is, in front of her, she would have seen his hand and gun moving towards her. Instead, she only felt the gun on her skin.

She made a critical mistake here, although fortunately her quick reaction saved her. NEVER turn your back on someone who asks for a cigarette or the time. Keep them in view until you can get the hell out of there.