Me too on guns...a good friend in my old AA Home Group down in Phoenix was a top Sgt in the Air National Guard. Knew his stuff. Worked nights and carried money. So he also carried a pistol.

He wound up getting into a road rage incident with a drunk kid. When they pulled over to "discuss" the situation the kid ran up to my friend's car and started punching him in the face and glasses. Friend was able to reach over and grab his pistol. He got out and drew down on his assailant.

The drunken kid grabbed the pistol, discharging it, and sending around through his own aeorta. The coroner got his blood alcohol level (0.07) out of his eyeball fluid since all his blood pumpted out onto the sidewalk.

My friend did five years in State Prison for "introducing a pistol into a fist fight." As the judge told him, "You were the victim until you pulled the pistol." No NRA dudes showed up to help with my friend's defense.

I've been shot at a bunch, shot back a bunch, and worse - have had to draw down on people and hold them at gunpoint. That's the worst...just hope, pray they don't challenge me. That's where the "act crazy" training comes in handy.

Don't really wanna go back to those days....but as I age, I have been considering just a small Glock.....but with the examples of the power of the kilt...maybe don't need one.

Ron