Does anyone know how effective a verbal warning like “I am carrying a loaded gun which will blow your head off if you get any closer”????????????
My story is a little different but you can gauge the effectiveness of what I said.
I’m a former undercover operative in the Left, turned journalist (most other journalists at the time knew almost nothing about the Marxist left).
One day I was covering a supposed “Weathermen” conference at American Un. in DC where two leftist miscreants were posing as “Weathermen”.
A member of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party sat behind me and fingered me out to the WU clowns on the stage (I’m 6’2”. I couldn’t hide in a crowd if I wanted to, no less an almost empty conference hall).
One of the WU clowns said that there was a police undercover agent in the hall and he wanted me to leave. (I worked with the FBI but was not an agent).
I stood up and said, “I’m an accredited reporter and I’m here to cover this story. Now, if you want trouble, I’ll go out to my car, get my gun, come back and blow your brains out”.
Silence. Nobody bothered me the rest of the day. I was really disappointed because I had already figured out where my first karate chop was going to land, on the SWPer, Carl, behind me. He would have been dead before he hit the floor.
Chickenshits when challenged.
Oh, later on someone planned to ambush me but I was tipped off by my friendly feds and avoided it.
Oh, and then there was the time my 9 feet of link-chain that was wrapped around my waste dropped to the floor during a Vietnam debate at GWU. No problemos there either.
Ah, the good old days when the good guys could protect themselves and the Dept. of Justice/FBI was on your side.
Today it is exactly the opposite. At least much of my family legally carry, open and concealed. It’s nice to have a former federale in the family.