DomMega
Member
I don't share this story too often but I figured if I was ever going to share it with anyone it would be with the lot of you here at the high road as I love this forum.
You don't really see the true evidence of crime per se, until you yourself are actually almost a victim of it yourself. On Christmas Day, late evening, I was in a liquor store by my home purchasing a bottle of wine for my girlfriend and her family before I was left to pick her up. I walked into the liquor store and saw a short, fat hispanic male walking towards the store as well. He was muttering something but I couldn't understand what it was he was saying. I do know that he was in fact a gang member by the clothes he was wearing and what he would soon say to me.
I walked into the store and grabbed what I thought to be a nice bottle of wine for the family. As I was paying for this bottle, this idiot decides to take his 40 ounce bottle of Olde English and slide it down the counter to where I was. My arm of course knocked it over and he just stood there and stared at me. I tend to have problems with people trying to act like tough guys in front of me for no reason. It was Christmas Day mind you and the last thing I wanted to do here was get myself into a situation that I might regret later, so I took the bottle that had since fallen on the counter, picked it up and set it back down by him. I kept my eyes on this individual because now I have a reason to. He said something again but I still haven't the slightest idea of what he said.
As I exited the store I walked backwards because again I didn't trust this guy. Then I heard him say, "Say something homey!" (insert name of gang here) or something to that effect. I replied, "Say what? Merry Christmas?" It was at that point he pulled out a .22 pistol out of his pants and was getting ready to point it at me. I could only assume due to his drunkiness and such that he was slower than he should've been. After the gun was presented, I just ran out of the store in a zigzag direction and put as much space between him and I as humanly possible. (Coincidentally my XD 40 was in my trunk.........locked..........and unloaded..........with ammo in an unopened box next to it. Whoop dee doo). I jumped in my car, peeled out and blew past a red light until I was about 3 blocks away. Adrenaline will do that to you.
Anyways, here's the kicker I went to file the report shortly thereafter with the Sheriff department of my city. Here's what I was asked:
-"Do you know his name?"
Um, no I sure don't.
-"Do you know where he lives?"
No, I sure don't.
-"Do you have license plate or the make and model of his vehicle?"
No officer, he walked to the liquor store and had no vehicle with him.
Me- "I can describe him though! He was a short, heavyset hispanic male with a bald head." (You can insert your laughing here as those types are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles).
We both laughed at that point but how sick is all this? He then stated that he could take the report but it wouldn't do anything and it would just get put at the bottom of the pile. Um yeah, ok.
Some drunken idiot gang member pulls a gun on a law abiding citizen, one who's in processing to become a police officer in Arizona no less, and I was forced to stand there, defenseless while some criminal would have and could have killed me with his illegal weapon in a convenient store. And of course the cashier wasn't going to do anything because he was a little fearful for his life as well. Is this where we're at, is this where we're at now? Is this country so confused and divided that they don't know the difference between criminals and gun owning law-abiding citizens? The people that passed those laws would've been petrified if this same individual pulled that stunt with them, however if I was in that store and armed from a concealed perspective they wouldn't have thought twice because well, I'm not a violent person.
I just think its funny that people in this state can get away with pulling a gun on an unarmed, law-abiding citizen, and when that citizen attempts to make a police report it can't even be made and this idiot will go out and do this same thing again. Only maybe next time he really does kill somebody.
Either way I still walk around defenseless because.........its the law.
You don't really see the true evidence of crime per se, until you yourself are actually almost a victim of it yourself. On Christmas Day, late evening, I was in a liquor store by my home purchasing a bottle of wine for my girlfriend and her family before I was left to pick her up. I walked into the liquor store and saw a short, fat hispanic male walking towards the store as well. He was muttering something but I couldn't understand what it was he was saying. I do know that he was in fact a gang member by the clothes he was wearing and what he would soon say to me.
I walked into the store and grabbed what I thought to be a nice bottle of wine for the family. As I was paying for this bottle, this idiot decides to take his 40 ounce bottle of Olde English and slide it down the counter to where I was. My arm of course knocked it over and he just stood there and stared at me. I tend to have problems with people trying to act like tough guys in front of me for no reason. It was Christmas Day mind you and the last thing I wanted to do here was get myself into a situation that I might regret later, so I took the bottle that had since fallen on the counter, picked it up and set it back down by him. I kept my eyes on this individual because now I have a reason to. He said something again but I still haven't the slightest idea of what he said.
As I exited the store I walked backwards because again I didn't trust this guy. Then I heard him say, "Say something homey!" (insert name of gang here) or something to that effect. I replied, "Say what? Merry Christmas?" It was at that point he pulled out a .22 pistol out of his pants and was getting ready to point it at me. I could only assume due to his drunkiness and such that he was slower than he should've been. After the gun was presented, I just ran out of the store in a zigzag direction and put as much space between him and I as humanly possible. (Coincidentally my XD 40 was in my trunk.........locked..........and unloaded..........with ammo in an unopened box next to it. Whoop dee doo). I jumped in my car, peeled out and blew past a red light until I was about 3 blocks away. Adrenaline will do that to you.
Anyways, here's the kicker I went to file the report shortly thereafter with the Sheriff department of my city. Here's what I was asked:
-"Do you know his name?"
Um, no I sure don't.
-"Do you know where he lives?"
No, I sure don't.
-"Do you have license plate or the make and model of his vehicle?"
No officer, he walked to the liquor store and had no vehicle with him.
Me- "I can describe him though! He was a short, heavyset hispanic male with a bald head." (You can insert your laughing here as those types are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles).
We both laughed at that point but how sick is all this? He then stated that he could take the report but it wouldn't do anything and it would just get put at the bottom of the pile. Um yeah, ok.
Some drunken idiot gang member pulls a gun on a law abiding citizen, one who's in processing to become a police officer in Arizona no less, and I was forced to stand there, defenseless while some criminal would have and could have killed me with his illegal weapon in a convenient store. And of course the cashier wasn't going to do anything because he was a little fearful for his life as well. Is this where we're at, is this where we're at now? Is this country so confused and divided that they don't know the difference between criminals and gun owning law-abiding citizens? The people that passed those laws would've been petrified if this same individual pulled that stunt with them, however if I was in that store and armed from a concealed perspective they wouldn't have thought twice because well, I'm not a violent person.
I just think its funny that people in this state can get away with pulling a gun on an unarmed, law-abiding citizen, and when that citizen attempts to make a police report it can't even be made and this idiot will go out and do this same thing again. Only maybe next time he really does kill somebody.
Either way I still walk around defenseless because.........its the law.
