Have you ever been shot at or threatened with a gun?

[qbpc]

Been shot at when I was a preteen every body took a short cut in the woods that a man owned. Heard the shot and the pellets going by me in the woods.

In the 7th grade I was shot in the back of the arm at school. Unknown caliber and unknown shooter (They think it came from off campus). I remember laying in the E.R and the police, coroner and every body you can think of looking at me. Talking about hush hush how things have changed I would have been on every TV network if that happened today. It was the second year that they put whites in a all black school yea what fun times riding the bus to school getting bricks tossed at it and all kind of stuff like that.

 

[TacoMalo]

I had a gun pulled on me once, I was in high school and driving around town I passed by a friend of mines place and saw a bunch of people hanging around out front. I pulled over to see what the big party was all about and before I knew it one of the guys jumped on my passenger side running board and stuck his arm straight at me with a ss 9mm pointed right at my right eyeball. He basically wanted to show off to his buddies. I was pretty upset about it but I'm just glad he didn't pull the trigger. One of my friends from high school was shot in the head after a fight. He was living in San Antonio at the time with two roommates and some friends of his came over to party. One of the girls boyfriend's got upset and started a fight with him, my friend beat him up pretty good and kicked him out of the apartment. About 30 minutes later he was on the phone and heard a knock at the front door when he walked to answer it somebody shot him through the kitchen window and the bullet hit him right between the ear and the right eyeball and came out just a millimeter or two in front of his ear and then pierced the top portion of his ear. I saw him a couple of years ago and he still has a pretty nasty scar from it but he was lucky just a few millimeters the other way and he would've been shot in the eye.

 

[Twig]

When I was about 16. I was deer hunting in a field in my stand. Well on one side of the field there is a gravel road. Between me and the road are 2 deer that I have been watching for about 15 minutes. Then this red and white Ford slowly stops on the road and the passenger gets out and the driver rolls down his window and they both start shooting at the deer from the road but the bullets start whizzing by me. I was shaking so bad and they were not stopping so I shot back unloading my Remington 7600 30-06 at the truck never pumped that gun so fast in my life. No one got shot and they took off when I shot back but I did find a hole in my stand and empty .308 casings on the road. Well the warden found them

 

[49north]

When I was younger and much more stupid my friends and myself were hiking/trespassing in the woods when the owners?? appeared with rifles and began shooting at us. We obviously ran like hell and all got away except my buddy Duane. They beat him quite bad, called the cops, and had him arrested and put in the can. Bad luck Duane.
Another time I was camping with my boy, 4 yrs old, and we awoke one morning to heavy gunfire zipping over our campsite. Some fools were on the next ridge letting their battle rifles rip right where we were camped.
I had a ruger 10/22 LOL, we just laid low till they got bored, luckily my subaru survived as did we!

 

[bsf]

Voted “Thank God, none of this has happened to me.” I lead a tame life and am very good at avoiding trouble.

 

[BridgeWalker]

Nope. No guns. Threatened with knives a couple of times, but in Israel, not the US.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Once by a 12ga. while running. Thank the good Lord it was a crummy reload that wasn't crimped properly. Hurt my pride more than anything.

 

[308win]

All unintentional; dusted with bird shot too many times to count, shotgun slugs close enough to hear them passing during deer season, .22 rounds passing overhead from target shooters on adjacent land. They all get your attention.

 

[Slinky]

Does a shoulder-fired missile count? or should I post in the "Ever been threatened with a DD?" thread.

 

[.45&TKD]

This is an amazing poll.

Half of us have been shot, shot at, or threatened with a gun.

 

[davepool]

yep, got robbed at gunpoint working at a 7-11

 

[che_70b]

I had some careless plinkers zing a couple by me a couple years ago.

Had a knife pulled on me by a guy whos car was broke down when I pulled over to see if they needed help. (it was in the middle of the night and I don't think he meant for me to see the knife, i have always asumed he thought I might try to rob him.)

A friend of mine did not realize who I was when I stopped to see how he was doing one night and aimed a 44Mag vaquero at me out the window. Appearently him and his dad had been having trouble theives and vandals messing with thier cars. His dad was a cop and they asumed it was someone he had pissed off since no one was bothering the neighbors.

Most recently a couple friends and myself were out riding around one night and pulled into the parking lot of this old store near their house. I used to stop here all time when I was younger and no one cared about us being there. Appearently since the last time I was around there some moved a trailer in up the lane from the old parking lot (this is out the Middle of no where in rural ky). All of a suden I see lights come on and several people with long guns creeping around silloutetted against the light. I rolled down the window and announced myself clearly and said that I meant no harm and did not realize anyone lived there. They said leave and I apologized and did so. The funny thing was how bad what they were doing was from a legal and tactical stand point. They turned on lights that were aimed back at themselves to try and lay in an ambush. My best guess was that they intended to start shooting if we got out of the car. I guess it would have been real bad if I was not paying more attention and one of got out to piss.
(I should note, we were not on the same property as the trailer and you are not aloud to shoot trespassers in KY. However this particular area has a high ******* concentration with more than a few people who think deadly force can be justified to run people off of remote county roads.)

 

[traderran]

One time in north Africa. while working on a oil rig. I was in the control room
working on a SCR drive. when bandits decided to pay us a call. well we
made it back to the state's while they went to meet Alla. I still wonder
if they got the 32 virgins.

 

[keeleon]

Luckily I have never been shot, at or threatened. I live a very boring lifestyle. Either that or CA's gun control must be working, right? I mean, I haven't experienced any crime, so it must be because of the laws.

It's interesting to see how many people here have been threatened or shot. Especially the people who say that it changed their point of view. I would be curious to see the same poll filled out by antis. What do you think the results would be there?

 

[weisse52]

I have not read every posting, but, I guess after reading these I realized that I had forgotten the times when I was out hunting and heard rounds go by / over.

That just made me to decide not to hunt on public land any more.

I have had two times when a gun was pointed at me in anger. First time I was about 16, a "friend" wanted to show off to a group and decided that point it at me was the way to get the job done. It resulted in me telling him that when he put it down I was going to ...do bad things...he did, then I did.

Second time happend in 1976. I was called out late at night to service a computer in a very bad part of town. I got out of my car and was collecting my stuff when I was confronted by several "young men" who pointed a mousegun in my face and demanded my money and things. That resulted in me producing a 45 and suggesting that I did not want to do that. (yes, stupid, but I was fresh out the Navy and bullett proof)
That resulted in them running in many directions at once.
Since I was not licensed to carry, I collected my things and went on about my business and said nothing to anyone.
It was only the last one that had an impact. I have carried most of my life, legal or not. We can count on ourselves to defend ourselves. The police are here to take reports and track down the lawbreakers.....

 

[Rio Laxas]

I was shot at while jogging near my home. I came upon three or four guys breaking into cars and turned around and ran the other way. Being turds, they shot at me but missed. I drew my own weapon but decided not to hang around and use it.

 

[Noxx]

Many years ago I had a near miss on the freeway, which was not directed at me , but which got my attention in a big way.

Two cars full of idiots were taking potshots at each other about 200yds ahead of me, and while I was wondering "is that a gun?" a round (.32 or .25 by the looks of things) binged off my windshield directly in front of my face.

The bullet did not penetrate, but did blow the inner layer of the laminated glass loose and all over my chest. I pulled over and had a "moment", called off work and went home to decompress. Fortunately, this is the only incident of it's type in my life so far.

 

[Ash]

I was shot at, once, by drunk rednecks (one event, multiple shots). I stepped into the woods off of Wilcox Road near Mobile, AL. These rednecks pulled over and shouted at me before starting to shoot in my direction. I hid behind a big pine tree as they shot into the woods at me. The sound of a bullet breaking through the underbrush was unmistakable. I've had many guns pulled on me, including one time when a cajun drove up after I finished in a helicopter showing the pilot tract corners near Wiggins, MS. He thought we were AL-Kayduh. I had a guy pull a lever-action rifle on me one time when I was mapping a tract - he thought I was trying to break into his shed (yeah, I was wearing an orange cruising vest, had a long cruising stick, and had pink flagging poking out of a pocket). I showed him my ID and all was well.

Heck, I've even had a guy call an arrest warrant out on me in Louisiana. I was legally using a road (a Weyerhauser road over which my client owned an easement) but the adjacent neighbor wanted to stir up trouble (didn't like my client).

These are the things they DON'T tell you in Forestry School.

Ash

 

[FourNineFoxtrot]

I voted "threatened, but not shot at", but that was before I remembered an incident that happened when I was 12.

At a friend's birthday party (camp-out sleepover in his yard), we decided to go for a walk sometime around midnight. Idiots that we were, we thought it'd be fun to do some "doorbell ditching". At midnight. Well, we rang the bell on the wrong house. When we heard the guy yelling, my friends all booked down the road. I'm not a fast runner, so I hid in the brush on the other side of the road. Fellow came to the door, fired a .22 blindly out into the night. I heard the impact on a shed behind me. I don't think he saw me, or he probably would have kept shooting. That's the only time I've ever been "shot at", if you can call it that.

Around the same age, I also had a run-in with an old man when trespassing on his property. My friend and I were walking through the woods, and cutting through this guy's property. At the time, we were walking along a road that passed a small pond. There was a cardboard sign nailed to a tree, handwritten, that said "Fishing here may cause lead poisoning". I didn't know what the hell that meant at the time. Well, as we're walking along, this old man appears on the road, yelling at us. He points to the sign, and says, "You see that sign?! That's the lead IN YOUR ASS, BOY!" (Oh, I get it...) He went on to say that he was going to go back to his house and get his gun, load it with snake-shot, come back and shoot us both. More than a little taken aback, I apologized to the guy, and promised to leave right away. He was still pissed, but he let us go... lead-free.

Aside from those nostalgic memories of youthful stupidity, the only time I've been "threatened" with a gun was by a pair of Sheriff's Deputies... who happened upon me while target shooting on BLM land. This, by the way, was an earlier incident than the one I recently made a thread about. Nothing came of this incident, except a warning not to shoot in that particular spot anymore, and another warning that due to the expired tags on my car's license plates, if they ever saw a car in the county that even looked like mine, they'd pull it over (I like to think of this as a variation of the old "Get out of town before sundown" line...). Since the various state DMVs I had to deal with seemed incapable of acknowledging my ownership of that particular car, I had to go buy a new one.

 

[kbarrett]

Getting mugged at least once in your life is becoming the norm, not the exception.

I have been involved in over a half-dozen incidents where the stupid factor went up to "eleven". In two of them, I was shot at before I returned fire. In the others, I was able to cause the attacker to de-escalate via the threat of deadly force, or I simply shot first, and didn't miss.

It takes a damned long time to hit the ground when you are getting shot at ....


If you don't mind, I would rather not get into details. So far, the prosecutors involved have decided that I was righteous, and have not dragged my ass into court ... for which I am thankful.

 

[simpleguy]

Thankfully unscathed thus far.

The interesting thing is the reaction of my family before the Omaha mall shootings(where someone my mom knew died) and the Colorado shooting. My wife God Bless her is all for me carrying, my mom thought it was weird until last week, my dad and father in-law don't care either way, my mother in-law is afraid of guns, my 7yr old daughter will tell you it's no big deal and it's just to keep us safe.

 

[BridgeWalker]

It's not that half of THR has been threatened or shot at: it's half of the poll respondents. Just a tad bit skewed.

 

[Darth Muffin]

Threatened once. A lady in a Del-Sol turned aross 4 lanes of traffic to cut me off, I honked, she apparently took exception to this and pointed a revolver (unamed, it was just a hand and revolver, no head) out of the sunroof at me when stopped at the next light. Her being in a Del-Sol in front of me cocked at about a 30 degree angle (she was turning, I wasn't), me trapped behind her in a 1971 Vista Cruiser with a 455, the course of action wasn't too hard to figure out She quickly drew her hands back inside to regain control of her car, I went home and filed a report and cleaned the red paint off of the bumper--good as new.

 

[cyclist]

The poll only lets me pick one option, so I'll tell just one incident that I might have mentioned before here or somewhere else.

Early one morning decades ago while riding a couple of motorcycles, a friend and I stopped by the Columbia river in Washington state near Vantage where the old highway used to cross the river before it got dammed up. A guy comes walking down along the river carrying a duffle bag. We all say hi. He asks about the bikes as he set his bag down and starts to rummage around in it. He then pulls out a revolver, gets all nervous, tells us not to do anything, and starts to rummage around in the gear on our bikes. He then tells us he was robbed the night before by some bikers who looked like us with bikes like ours. We tell him we were over a hundred miles away the night before and had gas receipts to prove it. All the while I'm looking at which rocks I'm going to be picking up and throw at him if he decides to start shooting as there was noplace to hide. Eventually he doesn't find anything of his, or at least nothing he wanted to take, and walks up the road a bit, then drops down in a ditch and crawls into a large culvert under a spur road. While he was in there we were trying to decide the best way to high tail it out of there, and with only one road we were trying to decide the best way to hang off the side of the bikes in case he decided to do some shooting gallery plinking at us when we rode/flew past. Thankfully he finally popped back up and continued walking up the road. We gave him a good 30 minutes to get around a corner then hopped on our bikes and took the spur road out of there.

Only one option on the poll so no need to talk about other times or answers.

 

[jhco]

as an avid bird hunter ive been shot at with bird shot alot most were not ment to hit us but a couple of times duck hunting we set up near someone else that we didnt know were there and he shot across the water at us with big pellet steel shot broke my glasses and brused us up pretty good but lucky the blind slowed it down some, it was dark and we never found out who it was we called the florida wildlife patrol as we boated away from them