> be walking outside sunday night 8pm with your trash cans, open carrying IAW 790 because you are at your home
> walk out of garage, look left, see a man 2 houses down light jogging from house to road with a handgun drawn at a child standing by a car parked in front of the house
>MFW
>gunman approaches car and kid says, "don't shoot me with that thing" all nonchalant - they appear to know each other, assume it was an airsoft gun
>
In retrospect I wish I had let them know wtf it looked like was happening. If the wrong person had saw that someone could have george Z'd his ass with out thinking about it. I mean, there was no way to tell if that thing was a toy or not, and at THAT EXACT MOMENT IN TIME it was a 110% real gun. In my mind at that split second I was convinced I was about to witness a shooting.
I will never let my kids play with airsoft guns when they're old enough, at least not outside of a designated airsoft/paintball field.
There have been a couple times in my life where my stomach flipped upside down, once was when I saw an airman standing in front of a running jet's intake (right in front of it!) while it was idling, and the other was tonight.
> walk out of garage, look left, see a man 2 houses down light jogging from house to road with a handgun drawn at a child standing by a car parked in front of the house
>MFW
>gunman approaches car and kid says, "don't shoot me with that thing" all nonchalant - they appear to know each other, assume it was an airsoft gun
>
In retrospect I wish I had let them know wtf it looked like was happening. If the wrong person had saw that someone could have george Z'd his ass with out thinking about it. I mean, there was no way to tell if that thing was a toy or not, and at THAT EXACT MOMENT IN TIME it was a 110% real gun. In my mind at that split second I was convinced I was about to witness a shooting.
I will never let my kids play with airsoft guns when they're old enough, at least not outside of a designated airsoft/paintball field.
There have been a couple times in my life where my stomach flipped upside down, once was when I saw an airman standing in front of a running jet's intake (right in front of it!) while it was idling, and the other was tonight.
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