Fistful, I agree. I'm trying to figure out who the loose cannon was in that THR thread, and I don't think the original poster was it. Furious Styles is reminding me more and more of the Rex Kramer character in Kentucky Fried Movie's "Danger Seekers" skit.
Our "persecuted" hero, however, let loose with a verbal barrage, founded, I suppose, on his own self-defense CCW experience (always the textbook example for everybody else's CCW decisions, of course):
I love these two-legged-goblin, anti-two-legged-goblin stories and ripostes.
Any of you suckers ever heard of "threshold of response"?
If you're going to do something about a surly purse snatcher, it'd better be to tackle him and hold him for the police. (G-98 insert: WTF? Yeah, they teach that in CCW class, don't they? Who's huffing testosterone, now?)
If he were forcing the woman and child into the car it would be different, but that moment never arrives in your little scenario.
Lots of bold CCW/CHPers, lots of old CCW/CHPers, not too many of both.
Stop huffing each other's testosterone out of an ammo can before someone really goes out there and does something stupid, please.
The thread's author had gone to Jeff Cooper's Condition Orange, meeting the readiness condition by putting his hand on his CCW weapon, then unhanded it as the situation went back down to Condition Yellow. He was there, he witnessed what was happening (as did his wife), and took measures to protect himself and perhaps even the unaware woman and her daughter. So you slam it as huffing testosterone. Nice. Then you take it further.
Yes, with your hand wrapped around the butt of your weapon.
Do I need to paint a picture?
So we CCW holders are now "suckers" and reminiscent of Festus. Nice backpedaling later in the thread though, with your "clearing leather on a couple occasions" bit. Were they justified, or any better or worse than the author's original scenario?
There are victims of criminal attack, and there are survivors. Which are you? These people managed to avoid something potentially unpleasant by keeping an eye out and maintaining good awareness. They weren't looking for a gunfight, or trying to test a new defensive handload. The scenario was so out of whack that the author's wife even said the situation didn't look right. So if somebody else agrees with the original author's course of action, this is what they get from you:
I don't think that he was in a position to consider using his weapon, and I've said what I had to say. Go troll someone else.
Who's the troll?
BTW, wanna hear about the home invasion goblin vs. my Remington 870 story, which happened twice in a neighborhood in the PRK? I can even produce the police reports. Want to pick it apart? I'm a big boy, I'll take the deputy sheriff hat off and you can let loose all you want, no retribution other than defending your actions to those on this forum who question your motives. How's that?
