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Stupid wrote:John, I considered that. Again, not that stupid yet.

I am writing these with a good intention. If you feel being offended, please don't.

In fact, dogs are the best home defense weapon

I have dogs, two in fact. And I am not offended. I think each person has his own circumstances and generalizing that no one should take the offensive to defend their house and home is, well, generalizing. You know none of us and you are telling many of us that we are your namesake. We're not stupid either.

One thing you may of not considered, stupid (i feel silly saying that), is that many of the two story homes in the burbs have the master bedroom downstairs and the remaining bedrooms upstairs. Seems to be the "in" thing in home building and has been for many years. One of my concerns, at night, is someone heading upstairs while i'm comfy in my downstairs bedroom. While I am going to investigate, the wife stays with the phone. And I am not going to call 911 for every bump in the night either.

Stupid wrote:When somebody eyeballs you in the parking lot, instead of get in your car and drive away, you reach your gun??!!!

Nope! Takes a bit more than that. Vigilance and alertness is all we are talking about. When someone raises the hairs on your neck, you'd better pay attention. I read most of the stories here as people not living in condition white. That is a good thing. With that said, the orginal question was whether anyone has had to "display" their weapon, I haven't done that in a public way and hope I never do.

Twice – both times at night in my house. Once was a serious bump in the night on one of my rear windows. The other was my son coming home when he was supposed to be sleeping over at a friend’s house. He set the alarm off at midnight. Lucky for us both, that he hollered “it’s just me�, because I had the gun and flashlight ready in seconds. Oh and anytime there is an unexpected knock at the door at night, but I do not consider that drawing, just good practice.

There was one time when I parked at service station/convenience store at night to trade off some equipment with a co-worker. I was returning to my car and had stupidly parked off to the side in a dark area away from everyone else. There was a guy on the pay phone next to my car and as I walked up, he dropped the phone and turned around with a belt doubled up and stretched between his hands. He was maybe 8-10 feet from me. At the same time, another car pulled up next to me and the guy turned and walked off. Didn’t have to draw, but very well may have if the other car hadn’t pulled up.

Oh and there was the time I ran nakid with a battle axe after... oh no, that was someone else.