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One of my concerns about the everyone should be packing heat all the time and no one ever has to back down or retreat ever for any reason, is that it does change how people in general may approach a confrontation.
Too many of us don't do confrontation all that well to start with, and we don't do good with assessing risk and most of us probably could stand to be more cautious, not less cautious when it comes to interactions with others.
And sure, plenty of people are cautious and careful and unlikely to shoot first, but there are enough hot heads that shouldn't be running around with lethal means on them most of the time.
If the two guys in the "other cases" post I made get off, I think we may have to worry more about a free for all.
and I may need to rethink my responses to people who tailgate and flash their lights. Pulled out in front of one person in the hole in traffic I finally got and guess they didn't like that so came up on my bumper than flashed their lights at me. So I start looking for the first place to pull off and get out of their way, but they back off quite a distance behind and we go past several good pull offs and a few good passing zones. Then they pull up on my bumper again and start flashing lights at me. It wasn't a good place to pull over, but I could without going in the ditch so pulled over as quickly as was safe. Instead of passing me they came to a dead stop.
I'm guessing I'm lucky they didn't shoot me. I rolled down the window than waved them past and they didn't seem to want to pass me, but I didn't want to be in front of them annoying them any more. So they finally pulled past. Drove the exact same speed I was going the entire time I was in front of them and then turned off the road about 2 miles down the road.
Usually that is my response, to get the heck out of your way if you are so disturbed by me to keep flashing lights and acting like that. But does that just make it easier for them to shoot me. I'm not going to drive 80 mph or more on wet roads to get away from them. I figure that just gets them to chase me.
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