GOODWIN":1cigi4lm said:
TresMon":1cigi4lm said:
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Thankfully I've never been in that situation. Curious...under what circumstances did you have to draw?
First time...I was young....21ish? I was in the parking lot of my motel headed towards my Jeep while on vacation @ Myrtle Beach. I was headed out for dinner and a show. I had a fuss with some guys on the beach in front of my motel that morning. They were bugging a gal to go out with the one guy. They refused her polite, repeated "no thanks." She finally looked over and gave me "rescue me" eyes. I walked up and said to her "Let's go for a walk" to which she sprung up and we did. The guys said to me..."we're gonna get ya dude." The gal and I walked a while, circled around, we got out stuff and I saw her to her room safely and went about my day. So yeah, in the parking lot that night, they must have been watching me. As I was headed to my Jeep...they circled around in a car that had the interior lights turned off. They said "Hey man, can you give us directions to Hooters?" It was dark and I sure wasn't expecting it to be the jerks from the beach. I squatted down next to the passenger door and started explaining where I thought it was. Then I saw the dark outline of a pistol raise in the drivers hand. The driver said "think you're the big man on the beach huh?" I drew my pistol, pointed it at the drivers chest on the other side of the passenger door I was squatted by, eased the safety off and started squeezing the trigger as I was telling him "You want to go to jail forever over a girl on a beach?" Like I said...I was squatted down by the passenger door so that didn't;t see me draw or aim the pistol.
I was waiting for my pistol to go off. Another car pulled in the parking lot nearby and its headlights provided just enough lighting for me to see the driver was holding a Crossman, pump-up pellet pistol. I stood up still pointing my pistol and said "I almost killed you over a BB gun." They sped away.
#2
I was as on Gay St, in downtown Knoxville late one saturday night. I was headed to do some street evangelism with Lost Sheep Ministries where all the college kids party in the Old City. Sitting at a red light...A woman yanked my car door open and jumped in my car is a flash. I was startled, but impressed myself...by the time her butt touched the seat..my PPK was jammed into her ribs with the safety off and I had the trigger preloaded. She started screaming "oh God don't shoot me" over & over. I asked why in the heck she would jump in someones car? She said because she desperately needed a ride and knew no one would giver her a ride, but figured if she could get on someone's car..they'd be stuck and have to give the ride........
#3
I was almost home from a long fun road trip. It was late...say 11PM. I decided to stop at the last (closed at that hour) gas station near my home and throw away the road snack trash and drink bottles that had accumulated in the passenger floor board. There in the darkness I was leaned over collecting the trash when there was a knock on my driver window. I raised up startled....only to see a man at my driver door with a small souvenir baseball bat. A man was also in front of my car with a pipe or something, and a guy was behind my car. He said "we're going to have to have some money." I snatched my pistol, and said if "if you gain another 1/4" on this vehicle I'm killing you, then I'll see what I can work out with your friends." he said "Come on boys!" and they ran off into the darkness.