Originally Posted by crockett

This is the same as me.. While no I have no military training I do know how to handle a gun. I have a conceal carry permit and a pistol because I wanted a gun when I traveled. With that said, the amount of times I've ever carried the gun on me in public is almost non existent..

I feel perfectly safe almost anywhere I go in the US. In fact the only real times I have carried my gun on me were usually when I was out hiking in the forest.

With that said, I did have 1 time late at night that I had my gun in my backback and I was walking across a empty parking lot. I could see a vehicle parked at the other side but it was very dark no lights, so I was walking carefully to my Westy..

I got about midway across the parking lot and the headlight of that vehicle came on and he drove straight at me. He turned and circled around directly behind my van with his lights pointed right at me..

Keep in mind it's pitch black and we are the only ones in this parking lot was at a trail head parking area. I managed to get in my van at that point as he pulled behind me with lights shining at my van.

I made my gun accessible but never actually pulled it, instead I kept eyes on my mirrors, started my van then took off across the parking lot, to re-angle with my high beams on this truck so I could at least see what I was dealing with. (now one thing I had going for me is there was no curb in front of me, so had I been blocked into a parking spot unable to move it might of been different)

Turns out it was some stupid teenagers trying to "scare me" because they thought it would be funny. Now just imagine if I was one of these gun ho radicalized gun nuts. I could have easily shot these kids claiming I was standing my ground and there would be 2 dead teenagers because I claimed I was in fear of mt life.

Can you imagine someone like George Zimmerman or someone like Vendildo who is a self proclaimed hot head in the same position? These dumb ass kids did everything by the book to make themselves a victim of someone defending themselves..

Instead they were fucking lucky it was someone who isn't scared to death of their surroundings to the point everyone is a threat. Someone who took a minute to assess the threat and acted with in reason..