Yes sir, home depot parking lot 1997, over a parking space. Dude was whacked out... Three open spaces, we took one, he took one and an empty in between. I got out of the pass side to move a shopping cart from the front of the spot. I turned around and had a 20ga shotgun pointed at me and was told " this is for people that take my parking space". I smiled, said "oh shit" and calmly walked into the store and called the PD. they took care of him nicely from there
Wow over a parking spot! Glad that nothing else happened. Great example of the lunatics that are out there possessing weapons. Today in this economic down turn it's worse than ever. That was back in 97 when things were good.I'll bet you had NO IDEA anything like this was going to happen.
Just the other day in my town some Perp crawled into a Mcdonalds drive-thru window and robbed them with a knife at 2/3 am. People are desperate and willing to "KILL" over a few bucks and in your case a stupid parking spot.
I'll say that YES I was also coming out of a bar one evening many years ago with another individual and two EGG-PLANTS rolled up on us at night with guns out looking for cash. Lucky for us other patrons seen what was going on called the police as I stood my ground and would not ,under there suggestion, move to the rear or side of the building. I was standing about 15' feet from the entrance. The other guy not so lucky as his perp had his gun held up to his melon! Perhaps my perp just wasn't as good as his partner. Anyway to defuse the situation I tossed the contents of my pocket about 2 or 3 bucks on the ground and while he was distracted I ditched between parked cars.
I consider myself very lucky as I could have been shot standing there or retreating.
My point is that even if you are prepared with a gun for your protection what could you do to protect your life ,liberty ,freedom and anything in between? The answer is NOTHING! I'll tell you 99.9% of the time this is how it happens you are caught off guard with your pants down as the criminal has the upper hand lurking in the darkness prepared ready weapon in hand. You on the other hand aren't and never will be unfortunately. So having a pistol permit and a weapon on you IMO is false security! Am I saying that there is no need for having a weapon ,absolutely not! Returning fire ,well in some states is illegal if you have gotten safe retreat ,sad but true, is well deserved.
So this is why I find it amusing when the Pistol Packing Pete's or the Cowboys come out with their Hey I'm packing so I aint worried bout nuttin attitude! I don't mean this to be insulting but until you've been staring down some asshole pointing a gun at you ,you aint gonna do shit,period.
Sure there are other sceneries,bringing a gun to a knife fight,5 on 1 ,verbal , but do you want to be the guy pulling a shotgun over a parking spot? Unfortunately we all don't live in Texas ,I live in CT with much more stringent laws on self protection!
Yes I carry a SW 380 by the way. Occasional a SW 9MM .