I am ashamed to say that I had road rage today.

[C4IGrant]

As some of you have noted, you would point your gun at YOU if you approached your vehicle.

If some of you guys get out of your vehicle and approach me, I already have my gun out and am pointing it at the door panel. As you come up to the window, I will point it at you and tell you to get back in your vehicle. If you walk back to your car, I am already calling 911 and turning your ass in (got your plate number, etc) and will be viewed as the victim. If you go for your gun, I already have the drop on you and you will lose this fight. I will then call 911 and (again) be the victim in the incident.

Just something to ponder the next time you think about getting out of your car to pick a fight (as you might just get someone like me).


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[SteyrAUG]

No seriously - didn't you hold a guy at gun point a few years back because he walked on your lawn? Didn't you post about it on ARFcom?

My sincere apologies if it wasn't you.

If you are referring to the instance where I had several people at gunpoint at 1am who were hiding from police in my back yard then that was me. It was also when I used to live in a very crime prone area and I held them until police arrived and arrested them.

But I think there is a clear distinction between a gang of homies ducking down in your back yard in the middle of the night and somebody who strolls over your property line and didn't do anything else.

Is that the instance you are referring to?

[SteyrAUG]

As some of you have noted, you would point your gun at YOU if you approached your vehicle.

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And that is why if we come to that line, I just call and wait for the police. If it ain't big enough for the police to take over, it ain't big enough for me to get out of the car and ramp up the situation. I can call someone an asshole from inside my car, I've had practice.

[BCmJUnKie]

As some of you have noted, you would point your gun at YOU if you approached your vehicle.C4

Grant, I agree. I wouldnt blame you and that is your right to protect yourself.

I hope I am not being taken as if Im "Proud" of the stuff I stated. Im not. Not only could someone have gotten seriously hurt, but worse.

Do I regret doing any of it? No. Im not. I learned very good lessons form those situations and like I said, Im older now and I have more logic. I am "aware" of my actions and take responsibility.

[C4IGrant]

Grant, I agree. I wouldnt blame you and that is your right to protect yourself.

I hope I am not being taken as if Im "Proud" of the stuff I stated. Im not. Not only could someone have gotten seriously hurt, but worse.

Do I regret doing any of it? No. Im not. I learned very good lessons form those situations and like I said, Im older now and I have more logic. I am "aware" of my actions and take responsibility.

No I understand, I am just making sure that people are aware that not everyone out there is a sheep with no gun. Things can turn out very bad very quick.

For the record, my sweet, friendly five foot, five inch, 110LBS wife has a road anger problem and has been known to flip people off, honk the horn and follow people. I advise her that she is writing checks that she cannot cash.


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[Thomas M-4]

I had a weird episode 5 yrs ago on returning home from a company X-mas party. It was little after 11pm on the freeway in the far left lane going 7-8 mph over the posted limit there was some traffic on the free way but it was fairly light enough room to pass on the right if you wanted to. Left the party absolutely no event just plain every day trip back to the house with my wife in the truck with us talking about the lousy food at the party. Halfway home on the freeway following behind a car and with the correct distance the car in front of me. I get bumped from behind WTF I move to the right center lane to let the person pass I was also going to give them a piece of my mind for bumping me on the freeway.
Did they pass me no instead the car pulls in right behind me again and then bumps me from behind again. This time I don't know what the hell is going on I don't know if there is one drunk person male , female or a car load of gangbangers wanting to kill me and my wife just out of the blue. I had accelerated some when I moved into the center lane and now was passing the car I was following behind in the left lane. Soon as I cleared that person I swapped back into the left lane at started to slow down to prevent the car from being-able to pull behind me again now the car that was bumping me got pined in between me and a slower moving car in the center lane . I could now see the car it appeared to be a white Toyota Camry still couldn't see the driver or if there were any passengers in the car. The white camry then bumped the car in the center lane that had boxed it up against. The driver must have freaked out they didn't change lanes the just started slowing way down. At the same time I started to speed up again, The car that was behind me seeing all of this most have said the hell with this. I don't know exactly when it happened but either they had pulled off or they slowed way down and my tail was know open again. Sure enough looking out the rear view mirror here comes the white camry coming up behind me and coming fast. Now I was going north bound on the free way and we were coming up to the interchange to go west and east. The left lane merges to the west bound traffic which is what I have to go down any way.
By this time I am piissssssedddd off big time. And I be damned this person was not going to bump me again going through a turn. I that point I don't give a damn if you watch Nascar I got something for you. I told the wife to hold the wheel through the turn. I was not going to shoot unless I knew for sure the camry was going to hit us but the camry was trying to close the distance to bump us when I hung my upper body through the drivers side window and I had my pistol in left hand sighting up on the driver-side windshield in the turn. Then they had a change of heart when they saw the pistol pointed at them. As soon as we came out of the turn the camry accelerated and changed all the way to the fair right lane trying to get away at top speed my wife [YELL'S OUT ITS A GIRL] as the camry passes us on the passenger side At witch point I stand on the gas so I can get side by side to the car to see exactly who. Sure enough there was a white brunet early to mid thirties crouched down in the drivers seat trying to hide no one else was in the car.

Still to this day I have no clue who or why it happened.
The best that I or my friends can speculate was that either she drunk/high on something or that she thought I was an Ex BF or something.

[Jay Cunningham]

If you are referring to the instance where I had several people at gunpoint at 1am who were hiding from police in my back yard then that was me. It was also when I used to live in a very crime prone area and I held them until police arrived and arrested them.

But I think there is a clear distinction between a gang of homies ducking down in your back yard in the middle of the night and somebody who strolls over your property line and didn't do anything else.

Is that the instance you are referring to?

No, it was a guy that you had proned out on your grass with a gun pointed at him - he turned out to be a surveyor cutting through your yard.

My bad if it wasn't you.

[SteyrAUG]

No, it was a guy that you had proned out on your grass with a gun pointed at him - he turned out to be a surveyor cutting through your yard.

My bad if it wasn't you.

Ummm no.

I have had surveyors, meter checkers, telephone workers and guys cutting brush back from power lines on my property on more than a few occasions. It isn't hard to recognize them for what they are and as they aren't doing anything like trying to gain access to my home I generally don't point guns at these people.

I think you would actually get arrested pretty quickly doing things like that. I'm also a bit amazed that you thought I had actually done something like that before and you haven't given me any shit about it so far. I'm actually kind of glad you brought it up so I could straighten that out. I don't mind being judged for the things I do, especially if done deliberately, but I'd hate to be judged for something I didn't do.

[Jay Cunningham]

Oh sorry bro, thought this was you:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/608...__.html&page=1

[d90king]

I avoid any confrontation when possible. When carrying a firearm IMHO you really have to take the high road whenever possible. It can go bad quickly, and at the end of the day it's just not worth it over some punks bad driving.