Gun shop horror story.

[GRB]

The entry hole was in his right thigh, with exit hole in right thigh, with entry hole into right testicle, with exit hole in left testicle, with entry hole in left thigh, with bulet traveling down to about his knee area. Shot as soon as it cleared leather, ready to shhot again. Also had to scan and saw his accomplice with real revolver in hand, shot toward him would have taken off his head but he was still in car behind windshield. I then again scanned the first guy, who was obviously no longer a threat as he was trying to hold on to something (not the pipe) and trying to get into car. Car sped away backwards, shot guy runs after car (yeah, 9mm is just a poodle round at best) and he gets in the car. Car sppeds off. Cops arrive, no blood, no gun, worried me. Guy shot, gets caught a couple days later in hospital. First says a crazy white guy walked up t him and some friends and started to shoot. Eventualy confessed and gave up his cousin too (guy in car). Lots of relief for me when he changed his story to a confession of the real facts.

Lots of bad dreams (nightmares about shootings and bad guys killing me with my gun not working), 6 months of therapy for that, temper change for me to worse than ever, back to therapy BUT I am alive. Who knows what would have happened had I hesitated and they found my gun and badge. Maybe I would be dead. I would do it again no hesitation or so I hope under similar circumstances.

 

[jsalcedo]

Good posts Glenn. You have given me a new perspective on these kind of situations.

 

[Hellbore]

Sounds to me like those asshats got what they deserved. One with a fake gun, the other with a real gun... Jeez. Sorry to hear how hard it was on you. I hope we all can react as well in a dangerous situation as you did!

Kinda reminds me of something that happened to my neighbor's son a few years ago (he was a LEO also). He was called by a frantic girl who said her ex-boyfriend was following her and she was in a parking lot waiting for the cops to come. The officer pulls up behind the boyfriend's car and gets out to go talk to the boyfriend. While he is walking towards the car, the boyfriend gets out of the car with an AR15 and proceeds to open fire. Lots of misses, but the 3 or so that hit him did a lot of damage. One went into his hip and shattered it, another went in under his kevlar at the shoulder somewhere and bounced around. He was on the ground before he could even draw his gun. The perp then walked over and stood over him and took aim at his head to deal the death blow, but somehow he was finally able to snatch out his sidearm and emptied it into the perp. The perp died in the hospital later and the LEO spent months in the hospital. He is still in pain and has limited use of his leg and arm, from what I hear.

Anyways my point was to agree with you, that a seemingly iffy situation can turn deadly in a heartbeat, so you can't hesitate.