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*Which is, in fact, bullcrap, because I go to a shooting range all the time with people having guns IN THEIR HANDS MUCH/AT ALL TIMES and I don't get that idea.
If that isn't good enough, the same applies out on BLM land.
The problem is that considering a person keeping a tool ready a crime is that it boils down to being a crime for making someone feel bad. Believe me, if that was a crime, you'd be in jail right now for even insinuating gripping a tool to be a crime.
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*There is a prime example.. well said.
As far as your actions of that night go, guess you were right, but I think you left it too close to being possibly "dead right"
Let me walk that walk in your shoes: I work in a prison, I know there are some on the inside that would love some payback on me and, one's home location for just such a payback, ambush (after work) at night, would not be hard at all to have some buds on the outside find out and act.
I think you lucked out, nothing more and, had they made the "run at ya" in the dark, with the wind blowing, I fear that you would not have had time to pull your weapon and have a fighting chance, as you let "the fear of" Johnny Law over-ride your better judgement of who they are, why they may want to harm you, when you heard (your words) "Get em" twice!!
Personally, I would have had my weapon in hand, under my hanging coat, rdy for a fight, for life.
But that's me if I had walked in your shoes that night.
But, I'm glad luck was on your shoulder that dark night and you're well.
LS