Pretty quick thinking by your co-worker ... dang shame the guy lived

Glad your okay

Years ago, I worked at a building supply place. We sold everything from a pound of nails to whole house packages. Anyway, there was a lumber salesman who came by once a week. He looked the part, but not the part of a lumber salesman. He drove an early 2000s, baby blue Lincoln Town Car, wore bright colored suits with popped collars, gold chains and pinkie rings. He was always asking if I had any pistols for sale, ones without papers.

One day I went out to his car to get some shirts or something he was giving us for being customers. As he popped his trunk, I made a statement about how it was big enough to put a body in. He never missed a beat and said “dead men tell no tales”.

I always wondered if he was full of bs or was really into something shady.

The guy is obviously short some chromosomes.. I can’t wrap my head around him still wanting a smoke from you after that incident. That’s crazy!

I carry my wallet in my left pocket and my gun on my right hip.

This!

He did have that vibe. Probably why he is on the street. I mean that in the most somber of ways.

I actually started carrying my wallet on the left due to a torn right rotator cuff. It was almost impossible to reach my right pocket. Anyone who has ever had a large cuff tear knows what I mean. But it has since become habit and now it's just second nature to drop my 380 in the right hip pocket.

The pocket you cant easily reach you mean?

That was 10 years ago, before the surgery. I can reach it now.

https://youtu.be/Riqv-a5NeWM

In my mind, this is the game plan..... but u know what they say abt plans

Yea, a lot of online straight killers on here. Everybody thinks they know what they would do, but they don't know chit until it happens.

You were there. I was not. So I am not saying any of this as a criticism, just my own feelings and opinion on the subject. I've been doing martial arts for about 45 years, and the one I have a black belt in for 20. A knife scares me worse than a gun. Most thugs don't practice with a gun, and holding a "gangsta" grip, they will probably miss you. A guy with a knife can cover 12 to 15 feet in a couple of split seconds, and all he has to do is slash once and hit an artery and you are done, you will bleed out in 90 seconds or so. Lose about half your blood volume and you will have a better than good chance of dying in two or three days. I have trained quite a bit in knife defense and knife take-aways. Don't trust a fool with a knife. Don't let your guard down. Not for a split second. It gives me chills just thinking about it.

last week when it was storming. My BIL (co-worker) and I,had just left work, i was pulling up to the highway to turn on. A black dude jumped in front of my truck right before the stop sign, when i stopped he walked over to the passenger window i had just let down a few inches. I figured there must be something wrong for him to be out in this rain with the lightning popping like it was. Anyways he asks for a ride down the road. I looked in the back seat and said it was full, rifle and shotgun in case, hunting boots and jacket. When i looked back at him he was walking to the back door, I went to lock door but he had already opened it. He jumps in. So i say what the hell its on my way home and only a few miles down the road, I already had gun in my hand. We get a mile down the road and this joker starts moving around a bunch, grunting and growling. I'm getting a little nervous at this point. We get to level plains and he asks can i take him to enterprise. So i keep driving, the grunting and growling continue and i ask if he's alright, he don't even answer me. I'm real nervous at this point, I can see him in the rearview, so i'm watching every move thinking I'm fixing to have to burn through this dude any second. I look back again and this dude has his hands together and is praying (hands shaking). We get to enterprise and he wants to go to up the hill towards walmart, I tell him" this is the best i can do for ya" I pull up to the store and this fella gets out and runs toward the store high stepping like he's running through tall weeds. I think there might of been some mental illness combined with chemical problems with this guy, Its a damn shame you can't help folks for risk of finding crazy.

I was robbed at a small gas station several years ago, out in the middle of nowhere, while I was traveling to a jobsite. I stopped to get gas and 5 thugs took $40.00 off of me. The crazy thing is I had a Sig Sauer .380 in my pocket. I can tell you, a million things goes through your mind in about 2 seconds and you don’t know what you’ll do until you’re in that situation. I thought about pulling my pistol but then thought, what if one or more of them have one too. I will be greatly outgunned. Then I thought, even if they don’t have a pistol on them, they probably have one in their car and I’m 15 miles off the interstate and Lord knows how dar from the next town where this jobsite is. I decided since all they wanted was my little bit of cash, that the best thing to do was hand it over. Had it been only one of them, it would be a different story. Here’s the kicker. The Sig I was carrying was brand new, bought from SIMMONS Sporting Goods that I had not even fired yet. Huge mistake. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, carry a firearm you have been practicing with. The reason this was such a mistake is I decided to fire the pistol a few day’s later and practice. Turned out the pistol had a defect and wouldn’t fire. SIMMONS has to send it back to the manufacturer and they gave me a new one. Just think had I pulled the pistol on self defense only to find out, if it came to it, that it wouldn’t fire.

^^^^worst fear

Or running out of ammo /mags

You did right in the situation in my opinion. No reason to risk it over $40.

50 rounds two hands
25 dominant
25 nondominant

100 rounds from 2 to far as you think you might need.

My life is worth 200 break in rounds. Magazines plenty of spares.

We laugh and pick at one another but serious social encounters are no laughing matter.

I've had attorneys as well as LEO's tell me the same thing

Adrenaline takes over, seconds go by like hours, senses are super sharp, make sure your properly equipped to fight. Nothing glorious about it. And never wish for it