Your statement is confusing. Are you saying his pistol should have offered him protection from the police?
So your saying he should have used the gun to keep from being arrested or even just questioned ?
First of all, what I said was "After reading the original story, what struck me was that if the person grabbing him had been a "bad guy" instead of a policeman, Mr. Pellitier could well have had his own weapon used against him."
If you'll go back and read the original story:
I was idly leafing through an interesting book, minding my own business, when suddenly I found myself seized by the right shoulder and my holster, pushed towards the corner of the bookcase, by either Officer xxxxxxx or Officer xxxxxxx, I’m not absolutely certain which of them.
I'm saying it appears that Mr. Pelletier is lucky that he was grabbed from behind by a policeman who had his hand on the holster, rather than by a "bad guy" with his hand on the holster because if the person grabbing him by the holster had been of criminal intent, the gun could well have been used against Mr. Pelletier rather than in his defense.
I sure hope if you own a gun you learn how to properly use it !
Back at you.
Let me ask you, if a person is going to carry a gun so that it's readily available if needed for self-defense, but difficult for someone else to use offensively, do you think carrying it behind you at the small of your back is optimal, or are there other types of holster both easier for you to reach and harder for someone else to access?