Deus Machina
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Originally it was a "better to have it and never need it" and "there's no reason not to" thing for me. Now I always have one in easy reach, when possible.
Last August, my favorite neighbor's son's ex-girlfriend had some kind of mental breakdown, came to their apartment (when the son wasn't even home) with a gun and a bat, and proceeded to hold the neighbor and younger son hostage and destroy literally everything you can damage with a bat. Nothing glass was intact. Even the doorknobs got broken off.
The apartment was just downstairs from mine. It came to another neighbor calling 911 and, when I heard it, me kicking the door in (not heroically, the hinges and lock were broken), clearing the gun she brought (she had laid it down to cause damage with the bat, and the young son did well pointing me at it), and making sure the neighbors had space to get out.
I tossed the magazine and tucked her gun in my left pocket. She did her level best to cause lasting damage to me and did eventually wrestle it out. My LCP was in the other pocket, and she never knew about it.
If she had gone for that pocket instead, went for another weapon, or decided I was less important than the injured neighbors, I would have used it. But I was more focused on keeping her away from the neighbors and stalling for the police.
It never came into play. The mother restrained her and she fell unconscious about when the police arrived. I left with scars. She left handcuffed to a stretcher, and died on the way to the hospital across the street. Haven't heard an official cause yet; the most I could get from the detectives when they interviewed me later was "drug-related cardiac problems."
So... you never know.
Last August, my favorite neighbor's son's ex-girlfriend had some kind of mental breakdown, came to their apartment (when the son wasn't even home) with a gun and a bat, and proceeded to hold the neighbor and younger son hostage and destroy literally everything you can damage with a bat. Nothing glass was intact. Even the doorknobs got broken off.
The apartment was just downstairs from mine. It came to another neighbor calling 911 and, when I heard it, me kicking the door in (not heroically, the hinges and lock were broken), clearing the gun she brought (she had laid it down to cause damage with the bat, and the young son did well pointing me at it), and making sure the neighbors had space to get out.
I tossed the magazine and tucked her gun in my left pocket. She did her level best to cause lasting damage to me and did eventually wrestle it out. My LCP was in the other pocket, and she never knew about it.
If she had gone for that pocket instead, went for another weapon, or decided I was less important than the injured neighbors, I would have used it. But I was more focused on keeping her away from the neighbors and stalling for the police.
It never came into play. The mother restrained her and she fell unconscious about when the police arrived. I left with scars. She left handcuffed to a stretcher, and died on the way to the hospital across the street. Haven't heard an official cause yet; the most I could get from the detectives when they interviewed me later was "drug-related cardiac problems."
So... you never know.