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I'll tell you a little story of what happened to me last night. Went out to a movie and dinner with my family for my wifes birthday.

Theater was crowded, so dropped the wife and kids off at the front and went to find a parking spot, found one and parked the rig and got out of the car. There was a car behind me, the guy jumps out of his car and starts yelling at me for taking his parking spot,(this guy was no where in sight). I apologize and show him a parking space in the next lane and ask him why he doesn't park there. He starts screaming obscenities at me, goes back to his car and pulls out one of those big D cell mag lights and starts to threaten to pound me with it.

This guys is like 6 foot and 200 lbs, I am small 5'9" 140 lbs, adrenaline starts running, I tell him to calm down, get back in his car and find a parking spot, because I am not worth the time. He gets really mad and starts to come at me with that damn flashlight. I tell him that I am giving him one more warning, that he had better get in his car and leave, or I would have to defend myself. He laughed at me, and said with what, so I told him. He didn't believe me, the idiot, I actually HAD to pull the damn thing out of the holster.

He very hurriedly apologized, got back in his car and left. I got back in my car and sat there to relax and calm down a bit. He was in the theater when I got in there with the armed guard standing next to him with this "I got you now" look on his face. THe guard took me aside, asked me if I had a gun, I said yes, he said he would have to call the police. So, now the family is IN the theater watching the movie and I'm dealing with Mr. Moron, and his brother. I said fine, and he said that he wanted me to give him my gun, I told him NO, we would discuss this further when the police got there.

The police arrived in about 10 minutes, and low and behold it is an officer that I know from the local gunshop. He looks at me and smiles, then asks the original guy what happened, the guy starts telling him this sob story about how I took the parking spot and then threatened him with a gun. THe Cop looked at me and his eyebreow went up unbelievingly, then he took me aside and asked me what happened. I told him the Whole thing, he took the guy out to his car, found the mag lite, and arrested the guy for threatening me with a deadly weapon. I PRESSED charges!! The armed guard apologized and went back to work and I missed half of Monsters Inc. ARGH!!!

Sorry for the rant, but this type of attitude in the above article pisses me off, who knows what could have happened to me if I had not had my handgun and CWP. I would probably be in a hospital and the guy that did it would be sitting in his living room with a beer laughing at me. Fact is, this guy will, from now on, keep his anger in check for fear of someone pulling a gun on his butt.

Oh and it turns out that this guy has a long record of Road Rage, has beat the snot out of a few people with that damn mag lite. This is the FIRST time that I have ever had to pull my gun on anyone, I have threatened, but never pulled it, never had to.

An armed society is a polite society, and if a person is dumb enough to buy a handgun without the proper training, well, sorry, that's their probelm. Don't take my rights away, because some Moron has killed themselves with a weapon they didn't know how to use!!

Good story.

Similar ones happen thousands of time each day. They very seldom get reported.

I'm glad you pressed charges too. A mag flashlite CAN KILL someone, and has(Famous Malice Green case in Detroit).

That's an example of a defensive gun use.

Yours is a fairly common story, although the morons who start these confrontations rarely get prosecuted. But there are a LOT of retards running around this country (some on drugs, but not all) who have little or no control over themselves, and will beat you to death over a parking space. Sad, but true.

Then tthere are the "aggressive panhandlers", like the gorilla who suddenly appeared out of an alley next to a liquor store I had just come out of (with my 12-pack of Coors in my left hand- I never carry anything in my right hand- especially not in dark parking lots at night). He was demanding that I give him some money to "hold" when I reached under my jacket and got a grip on my S&W. He decided that he needed to be be back in the alley very quickly...

Now, I did not SHOW the weapon, I did not threaten anyone, and I certainly didn't shoot anyone- but if this had gone to court for any reason, some slime lawyer would have been sure to say "This poor unfortunate was ONLY asking for a little money for food!"

I will not be the victim of a shakedown- period. (One reason I hate L.A. is that they have so many of these losers down there- you can't walk a hundred feet without being hit up for money).

Very good story. Congratulations and WTG. We're glad you told us (and were here to tell us) about it.

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