A Reddit user said the encounter happened when he was arriving at work early in the morning. In the thread, he explained that a man followed him into his job’s parking lot, which immediately made the situation feel wrong. From the way he told it, this was not just another car pulling into the same lot or somebody happening to walk the same direction. He believed the man had followed him there on purpose.
He said the man approached him in the parking lot, and that was when he drew his gun. According to his comment, the reaction was immediate. The man fled as soon as the firearm came out. There was no long confrontation and no drawn-out exchange. The whole thing was over quickly once the stranger realized he was not dealing with an easy target.
The poster added that his boss called the police afterward. He wrote that officers patrolled the area for a few mornings after the incident, but nothing else ever happened. That was really the extent of the story as he told it. He got followed into the lot, drew in self-defense, the man ran, and police kept an eye on the place for a short time afterward.
It was a short account, but the details were clear enough. He was not describing some argument that spiraled out of control. He was describing an unknown man following him into the parking lot at work, forcing a fast decision, and then running the moment the gun appeared. After that, all that was left was the police patrols for the next several mornings and the question that started the thread in the first place: if you draw, the threat runs, and nothing gets recorded, how do you handle what comes next?
What do you think — if someone followed you into your work parking lot before dawn and ran when you drew, would you report it immediately, or wait unless he came back?
Original Reddit post: If you drew your gun in self defense and nothing was recorded, would you report it?
