Things you see at 4:00 am

Like many of my friends I work nights and thus I have the misfortune of being awake for a lot more hours than most people and get time to think and write accodingly. These are just reflections on the curent state of everything I have an opinion about.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

I was ready to charge but then there was a Question of Ordinance

Tonight after my roommate and I returned from work I was doing my usual and playing my PS2 to unwind and let some stress bleed off when my roommate comes downstairs and heads out the front door to have himself one last cigarette before he goes to sleep. All of a sudden he sticks his head back in the door and says there is someone looking into the cars out on the street and he is going to check it out. No sooner had the words left his mouth then he went charging down the sidewalk. At this point I was at least partially committed. I considered following him for about 1/2 a second before I decided to instead grab first my cell phone then my gun, because While I had no intention of staring anything with anyone and would much rather let the police deal with this person I know it is better to be ready for anything then caught flat footed. I ran upstairs real quick and upon entering the bedroom the question of what to grab hit me. The initial impulse was to grab the 12 gauge because the more firepower the better, however common sense dictated that the hand gun should be my choice because while the random guy walking down the street might not generate any calls to the police something tells me that a guy charging out his front door and down the street with a Shotgun just might. So I grabbed the .45 and headed back to the front door to be ready to go running if help was needed and started to move down the sidewalk to see where my roommate had wandered off to when he reappeared and told me the guy disappeared. Looking back on it I realized that it wasn't a question of whether to take a gun it was a question of which gun to take.

4 Comments:

Blogger James R. Rummel said...

I think you did good. Without a clear threat to counter, leaving your house with a loaded shotgun held at the ready is a bit too much.

James

11:00 PM  
Blogger James R. Rummel said...

I think you did good. Without a clear threat to counter, leaving your house with a loaded shotgun held at the ready is a bit too much.

James

11:00 PM  
Blogger James R. Rummel said...

I think you did good. Unless there is a clear threat you need to counter, leaving the house with a loaded shotgun held at high port is a bit too much.

James

11:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, to be honest, when I read this, my first thought was: "damn, I'm glad I live somewhere where that doesn't happen, and if it did, I'd take whatever longgun I felt like, from 50 BMG on down."

More seriously, I'm glad it worked out OK, and I'd point out that sometimes you can just throw a blanket or towel over a short long gun (I've done this with a 22LR M1969 Romanian Rifle and with a M1 Carbine) and just carry it semi-concealed.

If you hold the gun as if it was a package, i.e. with both hands palm up, it looks pretty innocuous under the towel or whatever.

The legality of doing this is, well...fodder for lawyers, but its another option.

2:37 AM  

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