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The best Mexican fare I've ever eaten came from one of those little taco stands on the side of the road....and I've been to Mexico!

:DYou're my kinda guy, Motasyco.

I don't recall reading in the scenerio that the woman was innocent. You just assume she's not a criminal.

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I've been saying this the entire thread!!!

Kinda hard to figure out who the bad guy was, huh?

How do you know who's the innocent? I'd be more inclined to step in if I had that piece of information.

FT forum: This is just to cool not to spread around Why didn't these catch on?

If you don't understand the machanical operation of your handgun well enough, or don't have enough faith in it to carry it loaded, you've got the wrong kind of gun.

Yep. I believe there is a fella. His name escapes me right now, but I'll bet someone will be along shotly to tell you.

I'd be honored if you helped her, but I'd understand if you didn't. I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree. I further hope none of us are in a similar situation. When I was 20 years old and single, I'd have jumped in without thinking. Now that I have a family that depends on me, my view of the world has changed.

I'm sorry you feel that way. Were that my wife, you'd best get behind something, becaues she'd be emptying her Smith and Wesson.

If you get into something like this, it stands a very, very good chance of becoming a handgun carry issue.

Thanks for your input, JAB. I was beginning to think I'm nuts. I often have a hard time conveying my thoughts well. You did better than I've meen able to do. I worked with a man who went to Dollywood; it might have still been Silver Dollar City at the time. Anyway, at that time, when you rode the train, there was a fake indian attack en route. He almost cut the throat of one of the indians before he'd figured out what was going on. Often, these things are a split second desicion. You don't just walk up to an altercation and everyone stops and has a discussion. You run a great risk of becomming involved in it, and in turn getting injured or killed, or injuring or killing someone else. I see I'm in the minority here, but I'd fell less badly that the woman was injured or killed than if I had to injure or kill someone. I'd have a hard time with either situation, and I sure hope I'm never involved in something like this. Once again, she has the right to defend herself as do I, but she evidently made the decision that the police would do it. I'd be happy to call the police and get them to help, but that's about as far as I'd go. I guess I'm a coward.

What if she just stole the guy's wallet, or tried to kidnap his child? What if she'd fired shots at him before you got there? There just isn't enough information here to cause me to want to get involved.

A lot easier than I could spend time in a prison cell with a boyfriend named Bubba because I tried to take charge of a situation I knew nothing about. I have a wife and two children I'm responsible for. In our litigous society, I see how it would be so easy for me to become unable to provide for them due to trying to "do the right thing". Do what you gotta do. I see I'm not going to get anyone here to look at this from a different angle.

I'm waiting for the cliff notes version of that post.

I'd be more likely to intervene if I weren't carrying than if I were. I make a special effort to stay out of trouble while carrying, as if I get in trouble while carrying, it'll not just look bad on me, but put a black eye on all hcp holders. We aren't law enforcement.

There;s a h3ll of a difference in dealing with a situation like this if it's your job, and you have the backing of the court system, and just being an innocent bystander with a carry permit. I am not a leo, and just because I have a gun doesn't obligate me to protect the general public. A police officer can get by with things a permit holder will get punished for. That's the way it should be. That's why we have them; that's why you call them.

You guys are looking at this all wrong. You just don't know what's happening, or what happened before you got there. I don't know what DEA agents do. That's just an example. It could be thousands of things that brought this on, many we'd never consider. She may well have deserved it. You just don;'t know. I'm telling you that if you go butting into someone else's dispute you are going to open yourself up to all manners of liability. I know a man who once tried to seperate a man and woman who were fighting. The woman ended up beating the good samaritan worse than the man did. Thankfully, no one was armed.

Can she cock the hammer on your silky smooth model 36?

SO let's say you did this, and now you've found yourself with a handgun pointed at an undercover DEA agent. You think he ain't fixin to kill you? You can also bet he isn't by himself. The best case would be that you go to prison for threatening a federal agent with a deadly weapon. You're not going to like this, but it's easy to ba a bad a$$ on the internet. I've always been taught that if it gets to the point you need to pull your weapon out, you'd better be shooting. It isn't a microphone; you don't pull it out and make a speech. It seems very risky to stick your nose in someone else's business. Call the police and be a witness. You have the right to defend yourself. So did the woman being attacked. She decided she didn't need to. This shouldn't be a cause for you to possibly screw up your life.

Finally....something I can relate to!

They were made for shootin. Just take care of it.