How would you react?

[ChadAmberg]

Found this over at Tam's blog. Original story here.

Now that the links are outta the way, here's the jist of what happened:

Allegedly, the way it went down is like this: Some young guy is standing there in his local gun shop, minding his own business, with his hands full of prospective purchases and a pistol openly carried on his hip. The store was apparently moderately crowded with patrons, one of them being an older guy who apparently felt it was his duty to teach this young guy a lesson in the perils of open carry or situational awareness or something.

Anyhow, supposedly the old guy yanks the kid's gun out of his holster, drops the mag, clears the piece, tucks it under his arm and thumbs the rounds out of the mag while delivering some rambling lecture to the stunned kid about "Suppose I wanted to kill you now? Huh? What then?" Then he sets the kid's piece on the counter and stomps out of the shop leaving everybody standing there slack-jawed.

So... what would your reaciton be?

[aahorn]

the old guy is probably lucky another patron or employee didnt shoot him

[spyder]

The moment someone touches my gun (I open carry), they get laid out, end of the interaction. My uncle knows this personally (thougth it would be funny to sneak up on me in Albertson's).

He was lucky the kid wasn't prepared. If that kid is going to carry, he needs to be prepared also, otherwise, what's the point of carrying?

[Zundfolge]

Old guy is also lucky kid didn't pack a BUG or had any martial arts training and broke the old mans arm and face.

Most of the folk I know that open carry would probably have hurt the old man.

[Chad4000]

Old guy is also lucky kid didn't pack a BUG or had any martial arts training and broke the old mans arm and face.

Most of the folk I know that open carry would probably have hurt the old man.

I would have beat the ever living shit out of the guy.... that would have been bad...

[Ridge]

That's what backup weapons are for, aren't they?

[mcantar18c]

That's what backup weapons are for, aren't they?

No. That's what combatives are for. Hand to hand.
I mean, if you really want to test out the speed of your draw (on a BUG, no less) against the speed of the other guys trigger finger on an already drawn gun, go ahead, but I wouldn't reccomend it.
Being an "armed citizen" doesn't simply mean one who carries a firearm. It's someone who's armed with the ability, skill, and willingness to fight in defense of ___. The tool you use... be it a gun, a knife, a screwdriver, or your hands... makes no difference, and you need to be proficient in all of it.
It irritates the hell out of me when I see guys talking about how they always carry their badass .45 and nothing can stop them, yet wouldn't know what to do if their gun hand was busy holding off a knife or if you got close and started throwing elbows.

Sorry for the tangent/mini rant

[blacklabel]

Bad on the kid for not retaining his weapon but he should have been in the process of making the old guy pay for it.

[buckeye4rnr]

I think as soon as I felt my gun being removed from my possession I would've responded with speed and violence of action to knock him right on his sit upon.

[BPTactical]

First off why did he allow someone to get close enough to gain control of said weapon?
Awareness of your surroundings is a good thing.
Secondly, if you make the decision to open carry you need to know you may face such a situation and prepare in advance for it.

What's the old saw? Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance or something like that.