GlockJock
NES Member
So we were just having dinner at a restaurant, nice place on Route 1, and my daughter (LTC) who always looks around/thinks about "what if?" situations, leaned over and whispered to me "What if those two want to rob the place? When would we draw?"
This was the specific situation/layout etc, and I actually was curious as to what everyone here thinks...We were is a "back" room, off of the "main" restaurant area. Very busy..The place feels/seems like a converted bar, with a few "side" and "back " rooms (actually a real firetrap, the more I think about it, cuz if there were a fire/explosion from the kitchen, our only way out would be to actually pass the kitchen door, run past the bar and run outside. The "fire"/"emergency" exit was around another corner, past the restrooms, probably impossible to get to during a fire/emergency/robbery.
So my "kid" (she's 23 now, some of you know her and I from the range and clubs, etc) whispers "Dad, those two" and I look toward the bar and there's indeed two "punk" types who had wandered in from the road and were already bothering people, being arseholes etc. They "didn't look right". looked like they were "jacked up" on something (everything?) and it was making people uncomfortable indeed. If we were in Texas or Kentucky (etc) the owner/bartender/patrons etc would have probably "shown the two young gentlemen to the door", but here in MA they have the "right" to harass Liberals etc without fear of any "retribution" etc. The way they were carrying themselves would have earned them "Get the f*ck out of here and never come back" in many states, but, again, here we are in Liberchusetts. To make a long story short, we had finished our meal and paid the check anyways and were heading out. Walking past them I "eyed" one of them but he was "eyeing" the place, nervously checking out the bar, the rest of the restaurant etc. Nothing happened, but my daughter's question brought to mind a very good "NES Question":
Its just that these two brought the subject to mind with my kid AND my wife who is also LTC, who as mentioned ALWAYS thinks about fire exits, "cover" if some wingnut starts randomly stabbing people (Bertucci's, South Shore a couple years ago), etc etc....Suppose they realized they were out of cash for the next bag of heroin or meth, each pulled guns and yelled "Everyone, this is a ..." (like in "Natural Born Killers", and no I don't watch many movies but yes I DO frequently think about the "what ifs" in life)...
Do you wait to be shot? Do you hope they take the cash from everyone and scram? Do you wait til they're walking around ordering everyone to empty their pockets, see the G43 in mine (but NOT the G26 also I carry on my ankle) and see the daughter's LC9s etc and they "wig" out" and just use this as their flipping/tripping moment and start killing "for the fun of it" etc?
Do you wait and hope the situation dies down? Given the aforementioned "trap" situation, does that influence your "decision" and potential "timing" as to when its "go time"? I'm also with my wife and kids, all of whom are LTC and carrying, but I really have zero desire to have a shootout that involves my loved ones, yet I don't want my loved ones to be randomly executed like the folks at Luby's in Texas years ago. This (ESPECIALLY in this God forsaken Liberal hellhole) has to be one of the biggest/worst fears of any gun owner here. When to use it/draw it etc
I feel like Karl Malden in the old American Express commercial asking this (LOL), but...What would you do?
"What WOULD you do?"
Just sayin'
This was the specific situation/layout etc, and I actually was curious as to what everyone here thinks...We were is a "back" room, off of the "main" restaurant area. Very busy..The place feels/seems like a converted bar, with a few "side" and "back " rooms (actually a real firetrap, the more I think about it, cuz if there were a fire/explosion from the kitchen, our only way out would be to actually pass the kitchen door, run past the bar and run outside. The "fire"/"emergency" exit was around another corner, past the restrooms, probably impossible to get to during a fire/emergency/robbery.
So my "kid" (she's 23 now, some of you know her and I from the range and clubs, etc) whispers "Dad, those two" and I look toward the bar and there's indeed two "punk" types who had wandered in from the road and were already bothering people, being arseholes etc. They "didn't look right". looked like they were "jacked up" on something (everything?) and it was making people uncomfortable indeed. If we were in Texas or Kentucky (etc) the owner/bartender/patrons etc would have probably "shown the two young gentlemen to the door", but here in MA they have the "right" to harass Liberals etc without fear of any "retribution" etc. The way they were carrying themselves would have earned them "Get the f*ck out of here and never come back" in many states, but, again, here we are in Liberchusetts. To make a long story short, we had finished our meal and paid the check anyways and were heading out. Walking past them I "eyed" one of them but he was "eyeing" the place, nervously checking out the bar, the rest of the restaurant etc. Nothing happened, but my daughter's question brought to mind a very good "NES Question":
Its just that these two brought the subject to mind with my kid AND my wife who is also LTC, who as mentioned ALWAYS thinks about fire exits, "cover" if some wingnut starts randomly stabbing people (Bertucci's, South Shore a couple years ago), etc etc....Suppose they realized they were out of cash for the next bag of heroin or meth, each pulled guns and yelled "Everyone, this is a ..." (like in "Natural Born Killers", and no I don't watch many movies but yes I DO frequently think about the "what ifs" in life)...
Do you wait to be shot? Do you hope they take the cash from everyone and scram? Do you wait til they're walking around ordering everyone to empty their pockets, see the G43 in mine (but NOT the G26 also I carry on my ankle) and see the daughter's LC9s etc and they "wig" out" and just use this as their flipping/tripping moment and start killing "for the fun of it" etc?
Do you wait and hope the situation dies down? Given the aforementioned "trap" situation, does that influence your "decision" and potential "timing" as to when its "go time"? I'm also with my wife and kids, all of whom are LTC and carrying, but I really have zero desire to have a shootout that involves my loved ones, yet I don't want my loved ones to be randomly executed like the folks at Luby's in Texas years ago. This (ESPECIALLY in this God forsaken Liberal hellhole) has to be one of the biggest/worst fears of any gun owner here. When to use it/draw it etc
I feel like Karl Malden in the old American Express commercial asking this (LOL), but...What would you do?
"What WOULD you do?"
Just sayin'
