Your leaving work to go home at about 10:30 at night and you need to take the train home. Your in the heart of downtown and you get on the train and start heading home, a few downtown stops later the train is about 20% full and people are just minding their own business. All of a sudden, like a bad dream, like magic, poof, a crackhead crazy psycho gets on the train.
You don't know what his deal is, but he's pretty dirty, looking alot like a homeless person, unshaven and hair that has been un-combed for a while. He's tall and looks fairly tough and is walking back and forth, up and down the train isle ranting and raving.
He's swearing, and cursing, using racial slurs and names and going on about who knows what, all you know is that he's volitaile and pretty much jacked on drugs. At this point he begins harassing passengers while pacing the isle up and down from the front of the train to the rear going on and on. He goes up to one lady and starts calling her a n***er and that she should stop talking on the phone. He's flailing his arms up in the air and looks like he's going to get violent, the lady quickly gets off and then he see's you.
He comes towards you and starts yelling at you about how your perfect and he is not, how he has nothing and you have everything and that your useless. You tell him to back the hell away from you and that your going to call the police/security right now.
He lunges towards you
What would you do?
he has no weapons that you can see, but you have no idea if he has aids or hepatitis and you also realize that there is no rationalizing with him in his current state.
Do you show him the holster?
Do you defend yourself without the use of the sidearm?
Do you worry that he may grab your firearm if he tackles you?
What the hell do you do in a situation like that? What if your trying to hit him in the face multiple times because he's punching you and its not doing anything, he just won't stop because of the drugs?
man, this happened to me tonight. I don't carry because its illegal, but I didn't have anything on me, no knife, no spray, just my friggen wits. I didn't instigate him but I did get him on my camera phone video just for kicks, but I avoided eye contact just because its not worth me getting aids if I make him bleed.
Just curious to see what CC holders would do in this situation.
You don't know what his deal is, but he's pretty dirty, looking alot like a homeless person, unshaven and hair that has been un-combed for a while. He's tall and looks fairly tough and is walking back and forth, up and down the train isle ranting and raving.
He's swearing, and cursing, using racial slurs and names and going on about who knows what, all you know is that he's volitaile and pretty much jacked on drugs. At this point he begins harassing passengers while pacing the isle up and down from the front of the train to the rear going on and on. He goes up to one lady and starts calling her a n***er and that she should stop talking on the phone. He's flailing his arms up in the air and looks like he's going to get violent, the lady quickly gets off and then he see's you.
He comes towards you and starts yelling at you about how your perfect and he is not, how he has nothing and you have everything and that your useless. You tell him to back the hell away from you and that your going to call the police/security right now.
He lunges towards you
What would you do?
he has no weapons that you can see, but you have no idea if he has aids or hepatitis and you also realize that there is no rationalizing with him in his current state.
Do you show him the holster?
Do you defend yourself without the use of the sidearm?
Do you worry that he may grab your firearm if he tackles you?
What the hell do you do in a situation like that? What if your trying to hit him in the face multiple times because he's punching you and its not doing anything, he just won't stop because of the drugs?
man, this happened to me tonight. I don't carry because its illegal, but I didn't have anything on me, no knife, no spray, just my friggen wits. I didn't instigate him but I did get him on my camera phone video just for kicks, but I avoided eye contact just because its not worth me getting aids if I make him bleed.
Just curious to see what CC holders would do in this situation.