A Reddit user said he and a friend were driving to Las Vegas for a rock-climbing trip when they stopped at a gas station in the desert at around 9 p.m. His friend stayed outside pumping gas while he went in for snacks and caffeine. He wrote that while he was paying, he looked out the window and saw a black truck pull into the lot. Then two big men got out and started walking directly toward his friend, who he described as about 5 feet tall and maybe 100 pounds.
According to the post, the whole thing felt wrong immediately. He had the clerk call 911, then headed back outside. By the time he got there, the men were still moving toward his friend. He said he drew his gun and held them at gunpoint before they reached her. From the way he told it, there was not a long argument first and there was not much time to wait and see what they wanted. He saw two men closing in on his friend at a remote gas station at night, and he acted before they got any closer.
He wrote that the gun coming out stopped the approach. The men backed off, and the situation ended without any shots fired. But he made clear in the post that he still thought about how fast it all happened. One minute he was standing at the register buying snacks, and the next he was outside with a gun in his hand trying to stop two strangers from reaching his friend at the pump.
The story he told was simple. He saw a black truck pull in, watched two men get out and head toward his friend, had the clerk call 911, and got outside in time to draw before they reached her. That was enough to stop it, and the pair backed off before anything got worse.
What do you think — if you looked out a gas-station window and saw two men closing in on your friend at the pump, would you have gone outside like he did, or stayed inside and waited for police?
Original Reddit post: I drew my gun on someone for the first time.
