fantacmet
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Being a fairly sociable person such as I am, and being a bit of a nightowl, but not liking bars. I often made nightly trips to the local stop and rob, usually to pick up something to drink, snack on, and a new pack of smokes, and as such made friends with the employees, mostly a good bunch of guys becuase the manager was a level headed fella. This place is a cornerstone in my neighborhood, and I like to help to keep my area safe. The manager and half the employees knew I had a CHL and carried. Not being the best of neighborhoods, they always felt relief when I would show up at night, and i would usually stick around for awhile and chat between customers. One in particular we hit it off as pretty good friends, and even hung out sometimes outside of his work, just kicking it, or clowning around.
One night he brought his airsoft gun with him to work when he was training someone. I come walking in and he says "whats up" and starts raising an airsoft from underneath his shirt. In my mind all I see is man in front of me addressing me, coming towards me, and gun. I immediately backed off and headed for cover whlie reaching for my sidearm, at which point he dropped his airsoft on the ground and threw his hands up, yelling no no no dude it's just an airsoft. My gun never even got detached from it's holster lockdown, he moved that quickly. I had just gotten my hand around the grip when he dropped it.
This is a man who knew I carried, and was a VERY stupid thing to do on his part. I looked at him like I wanted to beat him. At the time all I wanted to do was take that airsoft shove it up his **YIKES** and empty it. Instead I sat him down and the guy he was training and explained to him the absolute stupidity of his actions. He was damn lucky I've got slightly better then average reflexes, and am not extremely trigger happy. I told him to get rid of his airsoft and anything he had that looked like a gun and go take a year's worth of gun safety classes, as chances are if he tried it on anyone else the next time we met I would probably be attending his funeral.
On the bright side: he started taking a close interest in gun safety and what kinds of things go on with CCW holders. He admitted he had never been so scared in his life, he thought for sure that was the end of his life, and what made it worse it was going to be caused by him doing one of the stupidest things you could ever do.
Incidently this is not the only close encounter I've had with stupid people and airsofts. I own an airsoft myself. I have a group of friends that go in full safety gear and go play airsoft games. Each of them has trained that in site of a police officer to immediately drop their airsoft and raise their hands regardless of if said officer spots them or not. I like airsoft guns, they can be fun, but I have to wonder if they are such a good idea to be honest. Certain airsoft guns can be an invaluable training tool for police and civilian CHL holders to be certain, and even for recreation, but I've been noticing the increase of stupid behaviour by people with them and almost getting themselves shot or worse actually getting shot and not surviving.
If things had turned out differently, if he hadn't dropped it, and I had never seen it was an airsoft, I have no doubt I would have shot him. Of course then I would have felt like complete ????. I would have faced criminal charges and civil charges for shooting an "unarmed" man. People with airsoft guns generally regard themselves as immune to being shot because it is just a toy. That anyone who shoots them should they draw an airsoft on that person would be sued to a great degree. This should be the other way around. Morons with airsoft guns who get themselves shot and survive should be sued for the grief it causes the shooter. However int his day and age stupidity is rewarded, while inteligence is punished.
Just some thoughts to stir on. What would y'all have done?
Rev. Michael
One night he brought his airsoft gun with him to work when he was training someone. I come walking in and he says "whats up" and starts raising an airsoft from underneath his shirt. In my mind all I see is man in front of me addressing me, coming towards me, and gun. I immediately backed off and headed for cover whlie reaching for my sidearm, at which point he dropped his airsoft on the ground and threw his hands up, yelling no no no dude it's just an airsoft. My gun never even got detached from it's holster lockdown, he moved that quickly. I had just gotten my hand around the grip when he dropped it.
This is a man who knew I carried, and was a VERY stupid thing to do on his part. I looked at him like I wanted to beat him. At the time all I wanted to do was take that airsoft shove it up his **YIKES** and empty it. Instead I sat him down and the guy he was training and explained to him the absolute stupidity of his actions. He was damn lucky I've got slightly better then average reflexes, and am not extremely trigger happy. I told him to get rid of his airsoft and anything he had that looked like a gun and go take a year's worth of gun safety classes, as chances are if he tried it on anyone else the next time we met I would probably be attending his funeral.
On the bright side: he started taking a close interest in gun safety and what kinds of things go on with CCW holders. He admitted he had never been so scared in his life, he thought for sure that was the end of his life, and what made it worse it was going to be caused by him doing one of the stupidest things you could ever do.
Incidently this is not the only close encounter I've had with stupid people and airsofts. I own an airsoft myself. I have a group of friends that go in full safety gear and go play airsoft games. Each of them has trained that in site of a police officer to immediately drop their airsoft and raise their hands regardless of if said officer spots them or not. I like airsoft guns, they can be fun, but I have to wonder if they are such a good idea to be honest. Certain airsoft guns can be an invaluable training tool for police and civilian CHL holders to be certain, and even for recreation, but I've been noticing the increase of stupid behaviour by people with them and almost getting themselves shot or worse actually getting shot and not surviving.
If things had turned out differently, if he hadn't dropped it, and I had never seen it was an airsoft, I have no doubt I would have shot him. Of course then I would have felt like complete ????. I would have faced criminal charges and civil charges for shooting an "unarmed" man. People with airsoft guns generally regard themselves as immune to being shot because it is just a toy. That anyone who shoots them should they draw an airsoft on that person would be sued to a great degree. This should be the other way around. Morons with airsoft guns who get themselves shot and survive should be sued for the grief it causes the shooter. However int his day and age stupidity is rewarded, while inteligence is punished.
Just some thoughts to stir on. What would y'all have done?
Rev. Michael
