Bob,
However , my philosophy is to try avoid the confrontation at all costs ....
That is what is taught at all of the classes here but in Buzz's case he was caught in an unusual situation and never had any chance to avoid it. In his case, at lest in this county, he would have been justified in using his weapon if things had gotten to that point. One of the two times that I mentioned that I had to show my gun was when I walked across the street to avoid a group of dopers and they came after me with baseball bats and cussing like a sailor. That ended when I raised my shirt tail and put my hand on the gun and they just sort of slunk back across the street into their driveway. I then called the police, the Captain was a friend of mine, and told him what happened. He told me if they ever approached me again to not let any of them get close enough to hit me and that they would look into them. All 5 of them wound up in Pelican Bay Prison and just as soon as they got out 4 either killed themselves or were killed and the other vanished. Now the past two years with things as bad as they are we even have the Mexican Dopers moving in up here to raise their dope and set up Meth labs, so the danger in just walking down a street has increased a great deal. And I am not talking about back streets. Last month there were four stabbings and a homeless man was beat to death on one of the main streets.
Ron
