Posted on 12/15/2021 4:54:52 PM PST by ThunderSleeps
Subtitle this: how not to be a victim
Leaving the grocery store a little while ago - went through self checkout. There was a couple of young men, maybe early 20s, loitering around speaking in a foreign language. I didn't even recognize the language, let alone understand what they said.
A little odd, given that it was just after five, most people were in a hurry picking up something on their way home from work. As I pushed my cart across the front of the store towards the exit, I heard them about 15 or 20 feet behind me, still speaking in the foreign language.
Something made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, so I did what I usually do - find and excuse to check/verify. Rather than push my cart out, in the entryway I stopped and fumbled with my 3 bags, leaving the cart with the others. My two new friends passed by, but found an excuse to pause on the sidewalk deep in incomprehensible conversation.
As I started out into the parking lot, my buddies took up their position 15 or so feet behind me again. It was at this point I decided I needed to make sure my cell phone was still securely in my back right pants pocket. In checking it, I "just happened" to pull my unzipped jacket back and my hand "accidentally" caught on my shirt, pulling it tight across the 9mm in a holster on my hip. Oops, I accidentally "printed" ... hard. Oddly enough, my two new friends immediately remembered their car was in another row and veered off. Imagine that.
Concealed carry means you have the advantage of surprise.
There are good points to both.
Open carry telegraphs the nar do wells who’ll conceal theirs, here shoot me first.
Quickdraw doesn’t beat a full hand but Gomer Pyle will.
Ooh, a Mak! Nice.
I have a Bulgy Mak, but just for fun. One of my carry pieces is a CZ82. The extra rounds of 9x18 Silver Bears are a comfort.
Fortunately, I never had to draw it, but I did reach under my shirt twice.
Where do you live? Sounds almost like my little town in AZ.
A few grains of situational awareness is worth a pound of lead.
I think your better choice, the minute you had any suspicion, was to immediately draw and shoot both the young men until your magazine was empty, then reload, then shoot anyone else within eyeshot just in case they were in on it with them. Then reload, then drive out of the parking lot shooting anyone else you saw since they might be trying to follow you.
When choosing fight-or-flight, choose fight, then do some meth, then fight some more, then more meth. Then fight.
Then do some more meth.
And then fight. More.
Well, there’s always that.
But don’t forget to aim for the baby strollers.
They’re afraid of being branded the criminal.
“And then fight. More.”
You’re not meth-ing around.
“I think your better choice, the minute you had any suspicion, was to immediately draw and shoot both the young men until your magazine was empty, then reload, then shoot anyone else within eyeshot just in case they were in on it with them. Then reload, then drive out of the parking lot shooting anyone else you saw since they might be trying to follow you.”
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maddog, I think you’ve found your “be more crazy” apprentice!
No one paid him no mind.
So in English. Are you trying to say some paid him mind or everyone paid him mind ?
Love Silver Bears in the Makarov.
I had a couple of guys follow me into a Home Depot after a traffic encounter. I noticed them about 30 feet behind me in an aisle. I immediately turned around and headed for them. They suddenly found many things on the shelves that interested them as I walked past.
LOL, reload... How did you know I was carrying a spare mag? My little S&W single stack 9mm only holds 8+1. I just started carrying a spare mag again.
He’s right.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.’
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I was leaving the gate at a remote wooded site with my pistol on my chest harness (exposed). Mainly for meth heads, but it would put some hurt on a bear as well.
There was a car across the way, and the guy approached me. Needed some help getting his car unstuck. I let him lead the way while scanning the area. He was stuck, and in talking to him it sounded reasonable. I let him borrow a jack and he did most of the work.
Having the gun visible made me more comfortable in helping him, as I’m guessing (perhaps a wrong guess!?) if he had been a meth head looking for trouble he would have bypassed me.
A friend of a friend was lured into a trap by the methhead girlfriend saying they needed a jump start. The guy shot him and then they stole his car.
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