Is this something Gunforge would want for Christmas?? Is that how you livin'? Say this picture and the first thing that came to my mind was GUNFORGE!!
Not getting you here. If they had a gun on the seat, or in the glove box would that make it okay? Because when it's "go time" I know I like my protection in the trunk, just to make it a challenge for me. Bottom line - you have a gun because you may someday have to use it, and carjackers don't wait for you to grab your gun. Maybe they have to conduct business in a shitty neighborhood that has a lot of armed robberies. I have to drive thru the hood when I go my medical appointments. No, I can't just take another route because the hospital is in the middle of the hood. I can't carry a gun because I go to these appointments from work, and I work on a military post so guns are prohibited. Thus if someone tries to rob me at gunpoint I will get shot for bringing my fists to a gunfight. I suppose that should bother me, but being a pussy bothers me more, so of course I'll do the impulsive dangerous thing.
I have drawn my gun once before when I was looking at the person it would have neutralized, and it radically changed the situation. I'll leave it at that.
"Neutralize" is legal code for "shoot them until they stop being a threat...whether it's because they're dead, incapacitated, or just ran away", although people generally don't use it in casual conversation. Further, people aren't neutralized, threats are neutralized.
Unless they're white...in which case it would be more like, "License and registr...oooh! Cool setup. " First thing that came to my mind was, "Hey, I wonder if this car as any cool stuff to st...OH FUCK! *smash grab run-run-run*
I don't worry, I just stay alert for it because so many people I know have been robbed at gunpoint or their family/friends have. And I mean for a case of beer, pocket change, etc. Yes, fuckers around here will commit armed robbery at the drop of a hat. About half my son's friends have been robbed at gunpoint or were in a place of business that got robbed. A lot of guys I work with or have worked with have been robbed. Admittedly, I know a couple that have committed it too, one a Senior NCO. But I've been lucky so far. I've been robbed a lot, but just theft of property when I wasn't around. One of son's buds was with his dad when a guy attempted to carjack them (near the hospital I go to a lot) and his dad SMOKED that fucker right in the head with the .38 he carried in the car on the seat next to him. He twitched for a while and that was all she wrote. I know every human death diminishes all of us, but that shit is funny as hell. It was like some Pulp Fiction out of left field shit. One second they're at the stoplight, the next second a dude whips out a gun and starts going for the door, and the next second he's meeting Jesus! Traumatizing for the kid? No, he isn't the sensitive wimpy kind, so no big deal. I've seen my grandfather shot (not fatally) when I was 8 or 9 and you never forget that shit, but it wasn't that big of a deal except: later on that night I got SUPER PARANOID and thought he might leave the hospital, get our long extension ladder we had alongside the house, and kill us all in our sleep. WTF? Hey, when you're a kid who knows why we think of ridiculous things like that?
That guy I killed for snoring twitched a lot too. Damn, that's annoying. Fuck's sake, just die already!
I never pulled my gun on my mother. I once arrived home to find signs that someone was in my apartment. I cleared my apartment and found that it was my mother, not a threat. Mom knows better than to do that now, and since I don't shoot at that which I haven't identified, my mother is fine. Guess what? Arriving home and finding signs that someone was there outside of a schedule, I'd do it again. And I'd be just as careful, since I have a wife. And if my wife arrived home to find similar signs, and she was far enough into the house that retreating outside would be impractical, she would do so. You guys try to hold this over me like some "gotcha." All it does is make you look silly.
