Strykervet
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Well, in WA it is so easy to get the permit... If you can buy a pistol you can get the permit, so why not? It also has advantage in that it preempts part or all of the background check and no waiting period.
In WA, it is also legal to draw to prevent a felony in progress. I also doubt you'd actually have to use it. They'd probably assume you are a cop. Speak firmly and loudly, and personally I'd hold it at the low ready. Then if anything DID come back my way, all I'm looking at is brandishing.
I doubt I'd shoot an unarmed teenage girl. Pretty sure of it. I can bonk 'em on the head if need be, but doubt I'd ever need to shoot.
You can also step in WITHOUT drawing. Remember, they are kids. Jerking them off and acting like a parent (it takes a village?) might just do it too. I guess if they turned on you like shi tzu's, you could draw, but I bet that once you take the upper hand without drawing, the rest of the public will step in.
Most people are sheeple. I heard that 80% of the population are followers, 10% are leaders, and 10% neither follow nor lead. I learned I was in the last 10% --I have no desire to lead or follow. However, it only requires one person stepping in and some of those people that were watching will be spurred into action. Maybe yell out, "Don't just stand there and watch!" Trust me, this works. The public is at your beckon call provided what you are summoning them for is morally correct (in general).
I guess I feel strongly about this because I am alive because a man stepped in when I was being beaten by ten guys. One came back to finish me off, I nearly beat some stranger's door down, and he answered with a double barrel. That kid didn't want any. I was a teenager too btw.
Now that guy could have sat in his house and NOT opened the door and shot me when I came through (I WAS going through it --I was hemmed in by a long fence and just this one house) or he could have answered the door like a man. I was lucky he did the latter.
I always carry now. That was the one time I would definitely have used it had I needed to. They weren't armed and they were teenagers but it doesn't matter. I can tell you I was in fear of my life, and I can tell you that little girl was too.
Man up. You carry, to some point you assume duty. Or perhaps not, there are a lot of people that live under rocks and won't lift a hand for a fellow man. I'm just not one of them. I seriously don't want to escalate a situation, but I also won't stand by and watch someone who is experiencing the same fear I did and just do nothing. That girl, she may grow up to carry too, but right now she just can't get away with it. Been there, done that too. I had the shirt, but it was torn and soaked in blood so I threw it away. A brand new Nirvana shirt too...
In WA, it is also legal to draw to prevent a felony in progress. I also doubt you'd actually have to use it. They'd probably assume you are a cop. Speak firmly and loudly, and personally I'd hold it at the low ready. Then if anything DID come back my way, all I'm looking at is brandishing.
I doubt I'd shoot an unarmed teenage girl. Pretty sure of it. I can bonk 'em on the head if need be, but doubt I'd ever need to shoot.
You can also step in WITHOUT drawing. Remember, they are kids. Jerking them off and acting like a parent (it takes a village?) might just do it too. I guess if they turned on you like shi tzu's, you could draw, but I bet that once you take the upper hand without drawing, the rest of the public will step in.
Most people are sheeple. I heard that 80% of the population are followers, 10% are leaders, and 10% neither follow nor lead. I learned I was in the last 10% --I have no desire to lead or follow. However, it only requires one person stepping in and some of those people that were watching will be spurred into action. Maybe yell out, "Don't just stand there and watch!" Trust me, this works. The public is at your beckon call provided what you are summoning them for is morally correct (in general).
I guess I feel strongly about this because I am alive because a man stepped in when I was being beaten by ten guys. One came back to finish me off, I nearly beat some stranger's door down, and he answered with a double barrel. That kid didn't want any. I was a teenager too btw.
Now that guy could have sat in his house and NOT opened the door and shot me when I came through (I WAS going through it --I was hemmed in by a long fence and just this one house) or he could have answered the door like a man. I was lucky he did the latter.
I always carry now. That was the one time I would definitely have used it had I needed to. They weren't armed and they were teenagers but it doesn't matter. I can tell you I was in fear of my life, and I can tell you that little girl was too.
Man up. You carry, to some point you assume duty. Or perhaps not, there are a lot of people that live under rocks and won't lift a hand for a fellow man. I'm just not one of them. I seriously don't want to escalate a situation, but I also won't stand by and watch someone who is experiencing the same fear I did and just do nothing. That girl, she may grow up to carry too, but right now she just can't get away with it. Been there, done that too. I had the shirt, but it was torn and soaked in blood so I threw it away. A brand new Nirvana shirt too...