MrTwigg
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Annoying stoners tend to crumple into the fetal position with a generous application of pepper spray.
Keeping your pistol in a crate between the seats might be OK in many circumstances, but were someone to get into the car with you, and I would not discount that risk too much, the gun would be difficult to use, and it might end up being used against you.
I fail to see the threat to your life. I feel you are exaggerating a perceived risk here.
I'm having trouble thinking of a legitimate, non-threatening reason for someone to attempt to open a stranger's vehicle door.
Can you give us an idea of what you think was going through this guy's head?
If you can't imagine a scenario where a stranger might open your car door and your life might not be in danger, I would suggest that you have a problem with social paranoia.
It's a reason for alarm, perhaps. A reason to do an immediate threat assessment, definitely.
He reaches for the door handle so he can open it to continue his harangue
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"So please, enlighten me".
There you go.
I never said he didn't act appropriately, but given the above quote, It appears that all that aggression and fear was perhaps exaggerated and maybe even unjustified, and the OP knew it at the time. There is a difference between fearing for your life and showing aggression to curtail further social interaction, and I see this being a case of the latter more than the former, then pretending it was the former more than the latter.
"that is a very dangerous way to look at things"
What, to assess threats and act appropriately?
What if the OP didn't grab for his gun? Didn't even have a gun? The outcome would have been the same.
The dangerous way to look at things imo is the assumption that guns are a great way to avoid talking to people who aren't a threat to you.
Just seems to me the OP is admitting to knowing there was no real threat, then makes a big deal about reacting to this "threat".
None of us were there except for the OP---but: someone trying to open your car door would be a most disturbing thing. Absent an indication of intent to harm, there may be a better way to handle it. How about moving the car forward or backward to get his hand off the door handle?
Had he gotten in, things would be a whole lot worse. One would probably and properly go directly past go and use necessary force immediately.
But that gun between the seats could make that a losing proposition. Not the best way to be prepared.
The proximity of the girl colors everything here. One cannot drive away. And she is in a vulnerable situation.
And how would it affect her if the father where to shoot the man in her presence?
A locked door and a power window may make a pepper gel defense viable.
In most states bicyclists are require to follow the same laws as someone driving a car which means driving on the road unless there is a bike lane which is different than the shoulder. My wife is a bicyclist and she has met some real [redacted]. Just say'in - attempting to open someone's car door... seems a little aggressive to me. Not much different than trying to open someone's front door (home).... and in some states, its the same.
I'm pretty sure its not legal to shoot someone in self defense for the act of opening your front door in any state.
I'm pretty sure its not legal to shoot someone in self defense for the act of opening your front door in any state.
What if you are in fear for you and/or your loved ones life?