...unless of course you're an old man or a 105lbs woman pumping gas at 11pm at night and there is a predator a couple of pumps over contemplating rape or a thumpin.
The thug is watching you, about to make his move, you then turn to place the pump nozzle back into it's holder and the thug notices you're sporting a Glock 9mm on your side.
Perhaps he'd be convinced to abandon his plans rather than suck oxygen through the hole in his chest. Juss sayin.
That exact thing happened to my wife only there were 5 of them. One said, “She’s got a gun!”. She turned toward them and said you’re damned right I’ve got a gun!. It’s my Constitutional right! They lurked back in the shadows and never made another sound.