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Some of you more recent to CCW may have some stories of situations were you really wish you had a gun, but didn't.
One involved my friend and I who was helping me move from TX back to WI a few years back. It was late, and we stopped at some rest stop half way up Illinois in the middle of nowhere to use the rest room, and this guy in there kept staring at me in a most frightening manner. It's hard to describe if you were not there, but it wasn't good to say the least. I don't know if this guy was drunk or something but if he looked like that when he drank, somebody needed to show him a mirror and tell him to stop immediately!
Fortunately, my friend noticing the guy, was on the other side of the him at the urinals, and was ready to jump him if he tried anything. Fortunately, he didn't do anything, and we got out of there as fast as we could. I don't know what might have happened had I been in there alone. Him being there may have saved my life for all I know. Even if I had a CCW at the time, I was in lousy Illinois so I wouldn't have been able to lawfully carry anyway, but I could have at least had pepper spray or something.
Another scary situation I had was at a music store in downtown Milwaukee. This big black guy was totally going ballistic, yelling, screaming and cursing at the top of his lungs threatening to jump over the counter and beat people up if they didn't return some CD his girlfriend bought. This went on for like 10 minutes, and I think I was the only customer in there at the time, trapped in the back of the store, with no cell, no CCW and no way out if this guy went nuts. Fortunately, that situation fizzled as well, and the guy left.
I will do my best not to ever be caught unprepared in situations like this again.
One involved my friend and I who was helping me move from TX back to WI a few years back. It was late, and we stopped at some rest stop half way up Illinois in the middle of nowhere to use the rest room, and this guy in there kept staring at me in a most frightening manner. It's hard to describe if you were not there, but it wasn't good to say the least. I don't know if this guy was drunk or something but if he looked like that when he drank, somebody needed to show him a mirror and tell him to stop immediately!
Fortunately, my friend noticing the guy, was on the other side of the him at the urinals, and was ready to jump him if he tried anything. Fortunately, he didn't do anything, and we got out of there as fast as we could. I don't know what might have happened had I been in there alone. Him being there may have saved my life for all I know. Even if I had a CCW at the time, I was in lousy Illinois so I wouldn't have been able to lawfully carry anyway, but I could have at least had pepper spray or something.
Another scary situation I had was at a music store in downtown Milwaukee. This big black guy was totally going ballistic, yelling, screaming and cursing at the top of his lungs threatening to jump over the counter and beat people up if they didn't return some CD his girlfriend bought. This went on for like 10 minutes, and I think I was the only customer in there at the time, trapped in the back of the store, with no cell, no CCW and no way out if this guy went nuts. Fortunately, that situation fizzled as well, and the guy left.
I will do my best not to ever be caught unprepared in situations like this again.