A Reddit user said he was camping in a Walmart parking lot for the night just off a major interstate when the encounter happened. According to his comment in the thread, he was outside his SUV the next morning getting ready to leave when a large white SUV pulled up with four young men inside, two in the front and two in the back. They rolled the windows down and asked him for money. He told them he had nothing for them, but he said they were persistent and did not take the first no.
He wrote that instead of standing still and hoping it would blow over, he moved around his own SUV so the vehicle stayed between him and the men. At that point, he drew his gun and held it at low ready. He did not describe it like a dramatic showdown with a lot of yelling. He described it like a fast decision made while trying to keep something solid between himself and four strangers who were not backing off.
According to his comment, the second he drew, the SUV took off. He said the whole thing ended there, with the men leaving as quickly as they had pulled up. But the event clearly stayed with him. He wrote that afterward he went inside to his coworkers, explained what had happened, and basically had a nervous breakdown. He also said it was the first time he had ever had to draw on someone, and he kept replaying how badly it could have gone.
He called his brother-in-law right after and talked through it with him. From the way he told it, what rattled him most was not just the encounter itself, but how quickly it had forced him into that position. He had been getting ready to move on with his day in a Walmart parking lot, and suddenly he was circling his own vehicle for cover while four strangers pressed in from an SUV.
Original Reddit post: Have you ever had to draw your firearm on someone or point it at someone?
What do you think — once four men pull up beside you in a parking lot and keep pressing after you already said no, would you have done the same thing and moved around the vehicle first, or tried one more time to talk them off?
