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Originally posted by leagleaze
I'm wondering how many of us have had close calls with serious criminal events in our lives. Probably most of us.
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In college, I've had to run for my life on several occasions while walking back and forth late at night from the academic buildings back to my dorm. Usually some thug or a group of thugs would casually block my path as I would be walking along wearily with my heavy backpack, at which point I would turn and scurry off in the opposite direction like a scared animal.
After about the second time this happened, I took a firearms training course, as well as a marksmanship course, and seriously looked into getting a gun permit. Unfortunately, firearms were not allowed in the dormitories. Damn.
Similar incidents have happened to me in the NYC subway -- usually a group of young men sense that I'm an out-of-towner and would follow me, oftentimes yelling "Are you lost?" I swear that if I had a gun, I would have had a Bernie Goetz moment each and every time.
