Two gunmen entered Bullseye Indoor Pistol Range, 1012 10th Street E., with their faces covered in bandanas before overpowering the man at about 5:30 p.m...He didn't have a chance?
“He didn’t have a chance to arm himself,” said Tom Santoro, owner of Bullseye...
You mean he wasn't already...?
If that's true, do you think maybe they noticed that when they showed up earlier to case the joint?
I can't think of the last time I was in a gun shop that didn't have an armed employee or two.
ReplyDeleteDitto.
ReplyDeleteWhat was he thinking?
Indeed, but no different than for anyone, anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteI met a woman recently and we got to talking about the gun I carry openly... as I love to have happen. She was very smug about the fact that she too was armed.
Since it was obvious she wasn't carrying, I asked her where it was and she said it was in her car.
"That's handy..." No other reply was necessary, unfortunately, because it was obvious that she'd made up her mind.
Sad. I hope she's in the car if she's ever attacked, and has time to fish it out of the LOCKED console.
mamaliberty, the best response I've seen to that particular scenario, in terms of making the point politely, is something that one of Jeff Cooper's master instructors continually did during the course of my first basic pistol class. The sequence is essentially this:
ReplyDelete"So your gun is in your car and mine is on my person?"
"Yes."
"In that case, I'm gonna need your wallet."
For me, the beauty of this technique is that the point is made twice: once at the time, but also later. It is almost impossible to get that scenario, so nakedly direct, out of your mind, after it's been put there.
After a few rounds of this, there was not a student in that class that didn't show up the next morning without a pistol on the belt. (And the smiles were general.)
I like to think of this as the scrapper's version of the much more elegant Jeff Cooper quote: You cannot make an appointment with an emergency.
(By the way, ML, I always enjoy your input on these pages. Never stop!)