guns (vastly off-topic)

[Guest guest]

>>>>But the effectiveness of guns is primarily

non-violent. Most of the time, just pulling out the gun will prevent an

attack.

------->even a fake gun! LOL! when i drove a cab in philly many years ago, i

witnessed a fellow cab driver being attacked. his cab was stopped in the

middle of the street and the attacker was in the front seat apparently

trying to stab the cabby with a huge long instrument that looked like a

giant screw driver. i called in a code 3 (emergency) on my radio, then

grabbed my pepper spray gun, which was metal and looked just like a real

gun. the only way you could tell it wasn't real was by looking directly down

the barrell because there was a bar inside the tip of the barrell. i shoved

it in my waistband, covered it with my jacket and hopped out of my cab. then

i went over to the passenger side window, lifted up my jacket to show the

attacker my gun and said " if you move i'll shoot you. " and guess what? he

didn't move. several minutes later the police came, put a (real) gun to his

head and extracted him from the cab.

now, if he had had a gun...i'm sure i wouldn't have done that. especially

not with my fake gun!

Suze Fisher

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