This is all so much hypothisising. My hope is if I ever have to draw my weapon I will see the impending threat far enough away, (but exactly how far is that?) so once i draw my weapon the threat will still far enough away I can use the weapon to diswade his intentions.
The reason i desided to take advantage of my states CC laws is simple. One of my favorite places to take my oldest son fishing is located in a nice quite out of the way place not known for ANY type of criminal activity. Then two things happened that changed all that.
<>Incident #1-I was fishing with my oldest son of five, when i heard what sounded like two men arguing noisly headed our way. We were on a large point in heavy vegitation, so i could not see them untill thay were less than twenty feet away from me. When i sttod up I could tell thay were both extreamly starteled to see me, I also instantly noticed thay had a BIIIIG bag of reefer (sorry cant spell the clinincle name for pot) and were arguing over it for some reason. Thay both did a about face and ran away. That left me concerned primarly because no#1 I had one of the loves of my life with me, and second I was totally cought off gaurd by the possability of that type of person being at the lake i was at, and being on a point i had no were to go if I had to flee with my son.
<>Incident#2 Different lake same general area with in a 10 mile radious. I was getting out of my truck to go fishing again with my five year old son, when I noticed the "no parking this side of lot" sighn was shot up
. As i was looking at it in disgust a IN DOC cop pulled up and said hellow. We talked and i commented on the shot up sign. He replied thats nothing did you read in the paper what happend here last week? I replied no, I had been working 60 to 70hrs a week for the last five months so I have had little time for anyhting.
He went on to inform me that some drug types had brought four men to this park that had been tied up previously, nelt them down and shot them all in the head
. One servived but was left for dead, and after the shooters left made his way to a local establishment and got help. Now keep in mind this is in a city in Indiana not known for any type of vilont crime, let alone gangland exicutions. I would never even think of taking my son to place that was the hange out of dangerous criminals, but i guess today it can and does happen anywhere. When I got home after talking to the DOC cop I asked my wife why the
didnt she tell me about the above killings? She replied I did not know you fished there:banghead:
So now when i go fishing or anywhere out of the way with my son(s) I bring my 3"XD40 with. Nice to know I am no longer at the mercy of stranagers.