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Dukesean:

You are probably right. And now that I have my CHL, it will more than likely be the way it turns out if it happens again.

I tried my best to send them home limping! :boxing

Pucker:

Thanks. Very true.



As an interesting side note:

From the first lick to the end of the fight ...

This is situation when (a CHLer or not) having a weapon stored in the car can end this type of sudden victimization very quickly or even save a life.

Glad to hear yall made it out okay.

Thank you very much.

I agree somewhat. In our situation, we were cut off from our vehicle. Gun in the car ...

Will,

Very sorry to hear what you experienced and glad you are ok. I do have a question for you. If you had been armed, do you think you would have had time to draw your gun as the event unfolded as it did. Sounds like you were being attacked in multiple directions during the entire event. Seem ...

I hate it when it takes an act of violence to bring folks to an understanding of how troubled our world is & how important situation awareness is. It is good that you were not critically injured & you have learned a great deal.

you wrote:
I just thought I would share my experience if anything just ...

Since you didn't file a police report, and they were never arrested for this, you will likely never know why.

People respond to alcohol differently, but some people are mean drunks. Our youth pastor was attacked a few weeks ago, and it was simply a mean drunk looking for a fight. He saw a ...

Having read many others' accounts of self defense situations, I thought I would share my experience with the board. This specific event is also the reason I finally followed through with getting my CHL & started being more aware of my surroundings. Perhaps you all can help me make sense of it. My ...

Also, which statute were you referring to a while back when you were showing justification to draw down without having justification to use deadly force (obviously for threats, but threats which are not yet to that point but appear to be headed that way).

PC §9.04. THREATS AS JUSTIFIABLE FORCE ...

So, is it possible to get updated information on the status of an application once it has been assigned to a trooper? I have called on two occasions. Both ladies were very nice, but only gave very general information.

"Everything seems to be alright. They are working on the back ground check. Don ...

don't use "Recently" and "Recent" in the same sentence.
"Presently I have been involved in discussion about recent events"

just one suggestion.
Good one. Now you see why I didn't major in english ;-)

" Presently (Present tense) I have been (Past tense) involved in discussion about recent events ...

Microsoft Paint. Open image with paint, click "image" then "stretch/skew".

Then you can choose percentage of reduction for vertical and horizontal.
(I usually select 33% of an image from my 4MP sony. seems to work well on forums.)

Then save as new name or save over original image.

Its free, its ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18237342/?GT1=9246

WAYNESBURG, Ky. - Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central ...

phddan wrote:We can only hope he does. Anybody know his email so we can send our support?

Dan

This was listed next to the originally posted article as "email the author":

fthompson@aei.org

Wow....very nicely spoken.

I would imagine this type of facility would have it's own in-house "police commandos", given my perception of the nature of work done there.

StevieD, do you know if they have armed response teams or at least armed security?

Update: A worker from Jacobs Engineering Group, one of NASA's subcontractors, was holed up inside the building, the company told KPRC, Houston's NBC affiliate.