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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
How many people here have been held up at gunpoint or seriously physically assaulted to the point where they feel if they'd had a gun the situation would have turned out better?
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I was robbed at gunpoint several years ago. The gun was put right up to the side of my head. (Yes, happened in Forest Lawn.)
Because there was a string of robberies, the police got all of us together to work on a composite. Between the 6 or 7 of us, we all agreed that we believed that the gun looked fake; but with our lives on the line we thought it was better to hand over the money than to risk getting shot.
Now, if I had a gun available to me; I wouldn't have been able to use it without the risk of starting a fire fight. So if it was within reach I would have left it. However, for it to be within my reach, he would have been able to grab it when he ripped the phone cords out of the walls. So then he would have had a real gun for sure.