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I wish I had a dime for every "little guy beating up the big guy" story I have heard over the years. I would give five hundred bucks to actually witness one of these David and Goliath events, outside of a Chuck Norris movie.

I think the original question pf brandishing a firearm has officially been muddled... There really is a simple answer. You will know when you are being attacked. You are allowed to use your weapon to defend yourself. Showing it in the hope that you will scare off a possible attacker is a real bad idea. It is possible you may decide pulling the trigger isn't needed because the bad guy ran off. But I sure wouldn't count on it happening this way.

C-dub wrote:I think the very first defensive shooting by a CHL in Texas was on an unarmed attacker. A great big guy started beating on a small guy in his car and the little guy shot the big guy. I think he was no billed. I can't find any references to this.

I remember that!! It was just after they first issued CHL's. I was thinking it happened in Dallas. The little guy did walk.... After some considerable legal expenses.

One may very well beat the rap... But beating the ride is a much harder thing to do. The situation can be real obvious and you will still risk some seriously high legal fees. My bill for self defense was 17,500.00 ...

On a second comment I saw posted here concerning road rage. Again, you better think real darned hard before you wave your handgun at someone you PERCEIVE as road raging on you. The first thing likely to happen is the other person is going to call a cop and you are going to jail! Good luck proving you were in danger. Even if you call in first... LOL. here is what it will sound like... Hello? Police? Yeah... Some guy just scared me and I pulled my gun on him! Police: wow... What did he do? You: well he was riding really close to my bumper and honking at me. He even waved his fist at me and flipped me off. police: where are you located presently? I will let you folks figure out how the rest of it will go.

I am going to warn you folks that a perp can be on you much quicker than you are thinking. If you show your weapon with your hand on it, while it remains in the holster, I bet you your life I can be on you quicker than you can decide to draw, extend and fire that weapon. Try it and you will see what I mean. Tell the person you are experimenting with to randomly withdraw and randomly attack. That way you won't know which way it is going to go, like real life.