nwilliams
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So this evening I was almost caught with my pants around my ankles, figuratively of course. I stopped into my favorite watering hole after a long day at work to have a Guinness before heading home and had a potential dangerous encounter. The bar is located in a very dark and quiet neighborhood and being Sunday night there was hardly anyone out. I parked my car down the street from the bar and took off my ccw since we can't carry in bars here in New Mexico.
As I was walking up the street I heard a voice call out to me and I turned to see a most unsavory looking Hispanic man dressed all in black walking towards me from out of the shadows. I kept walking and then he said "you have flat tire" I stopped and turned to my car and then as he came up he said "just messin' with ya" and then lifted up his sweatshirt and began to pull something out from underneath. A sudden rush of dread filled my head as I was gunless to defend myself. He then proceeded to pull two full bottles of alcohol out and showed them to me. He asked if I wanted to buy them and I said no and started walking away.
He followed me but I made sure he was in view so I kind of walked next to him not letting him get behind me. I didn't trust him one bit and he started asking for money and I kept telling him I only had a couple dollars. He followed me into the bar and then told the bartender I was getting him a beer. I told the bartender I wasn't and the guy got agitated and the bartender asked him to leave. I met up with a buddy of mine and had my beer and left. I was a little worried the guy would be waiting for me outside so I left with my friend so he could watch my back.
Anyway I feel pretty angry about this whole thing, I know its State law that you can't carry in bars but I could have easily been a statistic tonight. Supposing the guy had pulled a gun or knife on me instead of some bottles, which themselves can be used as weapons I may have needed to defend myself. I had my hand on my Spyderco the whole time ready to pull it, but still a knife to a gunfight isn't exactly a fair fight. I'm also a black belt in Karate and have been doing Aikido for more than a few years, but still if he had pulled a gun I would have been pretty defenseless.
Well I thought I'd share this experience with everyone since it got me a a little rattled. I don't plan on breaking the law and carrying from now on to bars but now I'm really wishing the State would relax its restrictions on this law. It really would have been crappy to become a statistic fifteen feet from my car where my ccw had to be left behind because I was walking to a bar
Then again maybe I'm just being paranoid
As I was walking up the street I heard a voice call out to me and I turned to see a most unsavory looking Hispanic man dressed all in black walking towards me from out of the shadows. I kept walking and then he said "you have flat tire" I stopped and turned to my car and then as he came up he said "just messin' with ya" and then lifted up his sweatshirt and began to pull something out from underneath. A sudden rush of dread filled my head as I was gunless to defend myself. He then proceeded to pull two full bottles of alcohol out and showed them to me. He asked if I wanted to buy them and I said no and started walking away.
He followed me but I made sure he was in view so I kind of walked next to him not letting him get behind me. I didn't trust him one bit and he started asking for money and I kept telling him I only had a couple dollars. He followed me into the bar and then told the bartender I was getting him a beer. I told the bartender I wasn't and the guy got agitated and the bartender asked him to leave. I met up with a buddy of mine and had my beer and left. I was a little worried the guy would be waiting for me outside so I left with my friend so he could watch my back.
Anyway I feel pretty angry about this whole thing, I know its State law that you can't carry in bars but I could have easily been a statistic tonight. Supposing the guy had pulled a gun or knife on me instead of some bottles, which themselves can be used as weapons I may have needed to defend myself. I had my hand on my Spyderco the whole time ready to pull it, but still a knife to a gunfight isn't exactly a fair fight. I'm also a black belt in Karate and have been doing Aikido for more than a few years, but still if he had pulled a gun I would have been pretty defenseless.
Well I thought I'd share this experience with everyone since it got me a a little rattled. I don't plan on breaking the law and carrying from now on to bars but now I'm really wishing the State would relax its restrictions on this law. It really would have been crappy to become a statistic fifteen feet from my car where my ccw had to be left behind because I was walking to a bar
Then again maybe I'm just being paranoid
