Assault weapons

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Oerets

One never knows for sure what or how they will react when face to face with someone with a gun.

The one time I was faced down by a shoplifter with a pistol, as a security guard at Kmart in the 70's. Know if was over before I knew what happened. Tackled him and snapped his wrist and retrieved the pistol. No thought just instincts I guess, got in a bunch of trouble for this anyway....

A local PD Sargent told me back then, best to keep yours eyes down and mouth shut....


Now I don't pack as a rule. To many stories in the news of people pulling and flashing escalating to a killing here in the Derby City!

I'm not going to go thru my life afraid of my death. Don't want to happen yet know it will. Want a surprised look on my face when it does.

This happened to me three times...at a 7-11, a Target, and at the family service agency where I was a clinical counselor for 12 years.

So...one morning I drove up to this neighborhood 7-11 for coffee, and there's a police cruiser sitting out in front with two officers inside. I figure they're having donuts. So I get out of my car and start to walk in the direction of the door. I get about halfway there and one of the cops calls over to me, "I don't think you want to go in there, we got a silent alarm call." So I'm a little confused and I say something like, "So now what happens?" And this cop, obviously miffed says to me, "I'm not going in there, somebody might be armed." So, I went down the street to the White Hen Pantry. So I guess they didnt want to get shot so they waited out front to see if somebody else got shot before they did anything. Similar thing with a couple of cops outside the entrance to the Target...where it was just some mentally ill guy having a psychotic break. I knew the couple who managed the 7-11, they told me the next day that somebody accidentally hit the alarm button.

This also happened one time at the family service agency. I walked up to the front desk, and there's this cruiser that the staff said had been sitting at the curb out in front of the building for 10 minutes or so. The office manager asked me to go out there to see if they would tell me what was going on. The cops said they got a silent alarm call (one of the staff accidently hit the button) from our office and one of them asks me, "Is everything OK in there?" I still don't get it.

Many years later there was the Uvalde school shooting where the cops hung out in the hallway listening to the gunfire...when I heard about that, it didn’t surprise me one bit.