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tehlump wrote:I'm trying to learn from my experience

Experience is how most of us learn (myself included). Experience can be a hard teacher... thanks for posting your experience. I've certainly never been in that situation before, and calmly thinking through it is good preparation for future situations.

Apparently the only time a CHL is supposed to show their gun under Texas law is when when you're actually legal to use deadly force. There were some cases about this posted a while back. A search should turn them up.

The main thought I had was to wear the gun. That way it comes with you automatically when you get out of your truck, and you may not have felt like you needed to draw it.

If you felt you were in an ambush spot, it's best to get out of there.

Sounds like you already thought thru everything else. Teenagers do stupid/weird things.