Onward Allusion
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Losov
Onward, you might not be at Black Friday, but you might be at the supermarket, on line at the dry cleaners or at McDonalds. Someone might cut in line at any of these places, and this is a much more likely event than six guys attacking you in an alley or some other such scenario that people train for that will probably never happen.
I think we need to train for what we're gonna do when someone beats us out of a parking space. You've got a gun on your hip and some stranger has just disrespected you in front of your date. How ya gonna handle it? Carrying deadly force is a game changer for all of us. We'd better come to terms with it.
I don't go to the supermarket during busy times (I go on Sunday evenings or weekday evenings), I don't do dry cleaners, I don't go inside fast-food joints - I do the drive thru. Even at our club, I don't visit very often on the weekends.
As for parking spaces, heck, if the other guy want it that bad and let him have the space. Of course, one day, he may run across someone who will turn his car into a Molotov cocktail after he leaves for his shopping, appointment...etc...etc.
Seriously, I don't think much of crowds and I avoid them if I can.
These days, if someone cuts in front of me and it is a one on one situation, they probably will get an "excuse me" from me. Anything beyond something verbal is unlikely. Fortunately, I haven't had that happen in a very long time . Maybe I have been lucky. Maybe it's that I just usually have a thousand mile stare on my face most of the time these days. I think I might have been 17 the last time someone cut in front of me. We had an exchange and the other person pulled a gun on me. I have learned the hard way not say anything in a crowded situation.
30 years ago (heh, even 20 years ago) something like that would have turned out to be a 911 situation and I probably would not have been around when the cops came. Fortunately, people change - for the most part and now I avoid crowds and other people.
One can train all they want, but if someone just got fired from their job, lost a loved one, got divorced, filed for bankruptcy...etc...etc...reactions will be different than if they just got that promotion or had a new baby or even a boring normal day. This is why our prisons are filled with guys who snapped just that one time. We are all capable of snapping and ruining or ending our lives and that of the other guy. . .