Tom Servo
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Twice with guns, once with a knife.
The first time, the idiot discharged the gun into his own calf while drawing. I think I've told that one around here.
The second was a guy who walked into the business I worked with the intention of intimidating someone named "Vic." Problem was, he had the wrong place, the wrong Vic. All I knew was that a guy in gangbanger clothes walked in, yelled, "where the fiddlysticks is that bad man Terry [paraprhasing]?" While doing this, he reached into his pants and started pulling out a snubbie. I have never come that close to killing another human being.
Practice pays, trust me. This was a crowded place in the middle of the afternoon. If I'd drawn and fired for COM (he was facing sideways from me) there likely would have been collateral damage. Fortunately, I was only about five feet away and was able to move to an angle where his head was the target (that guy had a big fat head), and the wall was the backstop.
Fortunately he relented. According to bystanders, I was quite calm and intimidating. I'm just happy I didn't a) take that last pound of slack out of the trigger or b) wet my pants.
The knife guy was an idiot, and at the sight of the gun, he took off like he had some pressing business elsewhere.
Still, in the second two instances, had I not been armed, there would have been bloodshed which was averted by the presence of the gun in civilian hands. In both cases, it was at least 10 minutes before law enforcement was able to respond.
The first time, the idiot discharged the gun into his own calf while drawing. I think I've told that one around here.
The second was a guy who walked into the business I worked with the intention of intimidating someone named "Vic." Problem was, he had the wrong place, the wrong Vic. All I knew was that a guy in gangbanger clothes walked in, yelled, "where the fiddlysticks is that bad man Terry [paraprhasing]?" While doing this, he reached into his pants and started pulling out a snubbie. I have never come that close to killing another human being.
Practice pays, trust me. This was a crowded place in the middle of the afternoon. If I'd drawn and fired for COM (he was facing sideways from me) there likely would have been collateral damage. Fortunately, I was only about five feet away and was able to move to an angle where his head was the target (that guy had a big fat head), and the wall was the backstop.
Fortunately he relented. According to bystanders, I was quite calm and intimidating. I'm just happy I didn't a) take that last pound of slack out of the trigger or b) wet my pants.
The knife guy was an idiot, and at the sight of the gun, he took off like he had some pressing business elsewhere.
Still, in the second two instances, had I not been armed, there would have been bloodshed which was averted by the presence of the gun in civilian hands. In both cases, it was at least 10 minutes before law enforcement was able to respond.