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03Lightningrocks wrote:Crowded restaurant...so maybe they won't notice you. Maybe i would not notice them, but yet i see you pull a gun and point it across the restaurant. You pull the trigger. Now I see you as a threat so I pull my gun and blast you. Yes....it could happen.

In all these internet scenarios, nobody ever wants to address how other CHL holders know your the good guy. Heck...everything seemed good until the guy with the gun started shooting at someone, so i took the nut job out. Only a nut would start firing a gun in a crowded restaurant or store...right? I'm not saying this to call anyone here nutty, I am simply wondering what radar signal some of you fellers plan to send so I know your a good guy, especially if you plan to fire the first shots of the night?

I think you make an excellent point about a 3rd party (other CHL or police just arriving) now considering you a BG. I guess, in the end, that's an important detail. But I also know if I have to draw and shoot I'm not going to announce that I am a CHL or anything like that. I guess we have to remember, if the restaurant you are in gets robbed and someone stands up from a table and shoots a bad guy, don't shoot the good guy.

I don't think this is a 'Houston' only type of crime. Could have easily happened anywhere.

That being said, crime in the west side of Houston continues to be an problem since Katrina. The influx of bad guys (and people with no respect for the property they got rent free) caused many of the apartment complexes to downgrade their rent and, therefore, attract a more questionable quality of tenet. This was not the case prior to Katrina.

This occurred very close to my house.

"Eyewitnesses tell us two men with hoods and bandanas went from table to table, demanding cell phones, wallets and purses. Unsuspecting customers said the men later fired two rounds into the air as they ran out of the restaurant... About 40 to 50 customers were robbed. The attackers remain on the run. There were no reports of any customers or restaurant employees that were hurt during the robbery."

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=6622405" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So, here's my question for the wise people on this site. If you're there and carrying when 2 armed men begin to rob the place - with 40 to 50 other people there - what do you do?

Draw and fire? What if a shoot out begins and innocents get hit?
Sit and wait? What if the BG's shoot someone?
Something else?