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I am a man in his fifties now but when I was 22 years old I was directly involved in an act of violence that involved a gun. I was living in an apartment when I heard screaming outside my apartment door. As I stepped outside to see the cause of the disturbance I observed three men. The first man had a knife and the second man had a four foot long heavy metal bar. The man with the knife was stabbing the third. The man with the metal bar was using it to beat the man who was being stabbed. I quickly ran back into my apartment grabbed my gun. I went back outside and confronted the two men who were attempting to kill the third man. The man with the knife ran away while the man with the heavy metal bar started advancing towards me while raising the bar as if to strike. I pointed my gun at him and ordered him to drop the metal bar. After dropping the metal bar on the ground I had him place his hands on the wall. Several minutes later the police and an ambulance arrived. The man I had held at gun point was taken to jail and the victim was taken to the hospital. I spent several hours at the police department giving a written statement and then went home. I never heard from the police again.
Approximately six months later I was at a pool party at the same complex when I overheard a man talking about the same incident. I spoke up and said that I had been the person with the gun that had stopped the assault. The original man telling the story turned to me and said “you’re the man that saved my life”. He said that had I not stopped the men from attacking him he would have been killed. He said that the two men that had attacked him had taken a plea bargain and were in prison. In this case my act of gun violence saved a man’s life and resulted in two men going to prison.