A Reddit user said the one time he had to bring his gun up for real started on the drive home, not in some dark alley or parking garage. According to his comment in the thread, he noticed a car in his neighborhood because the driver was glaring at him hard enough to stand out right away. Then the guy turned around and started following him. At first, the poster did not just roll straight to his house and hope it was nothing. He made a few wrong turns specifically so he would not lead the stranger back to where his family was. But by the time he finished doing that, he said he knew “1000%” the man was following him on purpose.
He wrote that once he was sure, he pulled his gun from the holster and set it on his lap while still in the vehicle. Then he turned down a small cul-de-sac, and the other driver stopped in front of him. That made the whole thing feel less like ordinary road rage and more like a trap that had already closed. The stranger’s explanation, according to the comment, was that he thought his girlfriend was in the poster’s truck. He started yelling for her to get out of the truck, as if he had decided the man in the driver’s seat was somehow hiding her there.
The poster said the two of them went back and forth verbally for a bit, but it did not cool anything down. The stranger got out and insisted he was going to look inside the truck himself to see if his girlfriend was in there. The poster refused. Then the man started coming toward the vehicle with a screwdriver in his hand. At that point, the commenter said the gun was no longer just sitting on his lap. He had it in his hand and raised to the ready position, though he specifically said he never openly brandished it at the man.
He wrote that what he said next was about as direct as it gets. He told the man that whatever he did, he needed to please not approach the truck, because one of them would not be going home to his family and he promised it would not be him. In the way he told it, that was the line that finally got through. The man backed off. The poster said he then filled out a police report afterward. He also added one small detail at the end that stuck with him enough to turn into a private joke: that was how his gun got the nickname “Holly.”
So the story he told was this: he noticed a driver glaring at him in the neighborhood, realized after a few wrong turns that the man was following him, and kept his gun on his lap as he turned into a cul-de-sac. The man stopped in front of his truck, got out, accused him of hiding his girlfriend inside, and then approached with a screwdriver when he was refused. The poster brought the gun to the ready, warned him not to come any closer, and the man finally backed off before anybody got hurt.
What do you think — if someone followed you through your own neighborhood, stopped in front of your truck, and then came at you with a screwdriver over some wild accusation, would you have handled it the same way?
Original Reddit post: Have you ever had to draw your firearm on someone or something?
