Commerce rambling, read at your leisure if you're bored enough.Not like I needed any reinforcement to carry but got a healthy dose last night anyway.Taco bell drive through line was wrapped around the building so I go inside since I only saw 3 teenage guys at the counter. Thought they were ordering but they were just rambling in semi-english about getting money and didn't order anything. Ok whatever, other girl in back glares at cashier guy and says to take my order. Guys wander outside.Get food and walk out, guys are sitting in the dark corner of the patio area smoking weed (still illegal here). Idiots, but again, whatever. As I walk to my car parked literally right next to them, I can't help but hear their conversation which included, verbatim, "I unno why we gotta keep robbin people when mom's got money." Followed almost immediately when they notice me with "nice car, sure would like to have it."With hand already in pocket click safety off (Sig p238 for the curious)."Thank you. I'd like to keep it."This is was in the county outskirts of a mid-sized city with a low crime rate (Huntsville, AL), not some impoverished inner city block with sky high crime rate. Just another reminder to pay attention to your surroundings. Shitty people with bad intentions aren't quarantined to certain areas of a city or inside a TV screen. This last part was really directed at the less gun friendly folks on my FB, not to the folks here who live in reality and already know this.Some may laugh at this non-incident, but these guys were literally talking about robbing people both inside and outside the restaurant for anyone to hear while knowingly committing a crime, however silly its classification (smoking weed). Like everyone else here, much rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.......................Slow day, so fuck it, here's a couple others I've had within the last few years.One I was at home watching TV with the gf around midnight. Lights off but TV on and cars in driveway, people obviously home. I hear and see a lady walk up on my porch then knock on the door. Being a southern gentleman, I get up to see what's going on and if she needs help. Being a cautiously optimistic person, I also grab my pistol off the coffee table in front of me.When I get to the door, I ask without opening what's going on. She's frantically begging me to open the door and needs help for some reason she won't disclose. I notice a truck on the street that's not usually there, lights off but someone sitting in the driver's seat. She notices the pistol in my hand. She screams and bolts. Now I'm worried I'm an asshole and just scared away a woman who legit needed help...until I saw the guy running up my driveway from the backyard and both jump in the truck and speed off.She was a fucking diversion for this guy to come in the back and had a getaway driver waiting out front................Second "major" DGU that never was, happened when my car broke down on the way home from a wedding way out of town. Got towed to the dealership around 2am after waiting a while plus the drive. As the guy is unloading, this monstrosity of a man that's got to be pushing 7 feet and 300lb+ comes around the corner and bee lines for us. Starts talking about needing some money that we obviously have (me still in my suit from the wedding) as he reaches in his pocket. I toss my coat to the side and put a hand on my now visible, shiny S&W 357 and politely inform him that we don't have anything he wants. He puts the now obvious knife back in his pocket and mutters something under his breath and saunters off.It was only then I notice the tow truck driver with his t-shirt pulled up and his hand on his pistol as well. Turns out he's former military, currently a firearm instructor, and not his first time bumping into such opportunistic creatures of the night. Said he was glad to have some backup for a change haha.................I'm rambling on to illustrate a point that most of us already know. That the impossible statistic of DGUs will never be able to be quantified because the majority don't ever make so much as a local headline or even a police report. All 3 of these incidents I called police to inform them of what happened and provide what descriptions I could. The most they ever offered was to send someone by to check out the area sometime, but I never spoke with any police in person. Technically nothing really happened so it fell off their radar the second we hung up.For what it's worth, for anyone newer or doubting themselves about carrying in seemingly safe scenarios, just remember that it's not paranoid to be prepared. You buckle up and don't expect to wreck, you have smoke detectors and don't expect a fire, you lock your doors and don't expect to be robbed...don't let anyone convince you that you're doing something wrong by being armed whenever you can be in the unlikely case that you need to be. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2nUb9Is
