This was before I was 21 so I couldn't get a concealed carry license.
My girlfriend at the time lived on a not so nice street (not gangland by any means, but some lousy people). I'm on my way to her house one day when she calls saying two people in a car are shooting heroin in front of her house. So I tell her to call the police and I can't remember if she did or not, but I waited around the corner from her house and called the PD when they drove off when I got their plate. Well not much happened, and about two weeks later we were walking out of her house when the same car drives by with a female driving and a male hanging out the window yelling "rent-a-cop loser", [Edited] (I am on a volunteer FD so the people in the neighborhood had seen me in my uniform prior and being the paranoid types automatically assumed I was somehow involved with the PD). So the car stops at the end of the street (only one house down from my GFs house. And the male exits and starts to try and initiate a fight, slowly getting closer to me. So I pulled a can of OC spray out of my pocket and kept it by my side and slowly started to shake it up. He didnt notice but the female did and pulled him away and back into the car and drove off.
So obviously even if I had a CCL I wouldn't have been able to shoot him so it goes to show that you should always carry a seconday means of defense.
My girlfriend at the time lived on a not so nice street (not gangland by any means, but some lousy people). I'm on my way to her house one day when she calls saying two people in a car are shooting heroin in front of her house. So I tell her to call the police and I can't remember if she did or not, but I waited around the corner from her house and called the PD when they drove off when I got their plate. Well not much happened, and about two weeks later we were walking out of her house when the same car drives by with a female driving and a male hanging out the window yelling "rent-a-cop loser", [Edited] (I am on a volunteer FD so the people in the neighborhood had seen me in my uniform prior and being the paranoid types automatically assumed I was somehow involved with the PD). So the car stops at the end of the street (only one house down from my GFs house. And the male exits and starts to try and initiate a fight, slowly getting closer to me. So I pulled a can of OC spray out of my pocket and kept it by my side and slowly started to shake it up. He didnt notice but the female did and pulled him away and back into the car and drove off.
So obviously even if I had a CCL I wouldn't have been able to shoot him so it goes to show that you should always carry a seconday means of defense.