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Since my retirement from LE work 17 years ago, I've never had to draw.

I've been selected for approach several times since then, but detected the attention early.

My "You're making a mistake. I know you can feel it, and if you keep going, it's going to ruin your day" look has helped most of those folks make good decisions that saved both of us a lot of grief.

In the one case where a purse snatcher made a run at my wife's purse in Chattanooga, I convinced him he had urgent business elsewhere with words and positioning without revealing that I was armed.