They voted for me to be released first because of my age [70]
Here is one article
https://www.wsj.com/articles/suspect-surrenders-in-los-angeles-trader-joes-standoff-one-woman-is-killed-1532227680
OMG! Thank G-d you are ok. You must be traumatized. I’m so sorry you had to go through such terror!
What an experience! Prayers for you! God be praised that you were not injured.
Bunny, thank God you are safe. What a horrible experience. Please take good care of yourself in the coming days. God bless you.
If true and I hope you are not joking, glad you are safe.
Oh, my God, Bunny! Thank God you’re here telling us about it.
I am curious.
If you had a CCW handgun on your person, would there ever have been an opportunity where you could have gotten your gun, aimed, and shot the perp without extreme danger to yourself such as while he was holding his gun on you?
I am just curious about the circumstances. Would a carry pistol have been of use during your time as a hostage, or would it have made no difference and you would have had no opportunity to deploy it?
We always assume we would have some opportunity to shoot a perp with a carry pistol. Since you have been through a real world experience where you were held at gunpoint, I am just curious to know if you truly would have had some opportunity to shoot him with a carry pistol where you had some expectation of not getting shot in return, or if he was always watching you so closely that there would never have been an opportunity to sneak out your carry gun, aim, and have been able to shoot him and possibly end the standoff.
Thank in advance.
Put yourself in the hands of the Lord who brought you thru this. If you have not done so, give you sins and life to the Lord Jesus who loved you and gave Himself for you, that you may be saved on His account.
If we trust in Him and are walking in faith and a good conscience (not that I always am), we should not fear death, which will happen to all, sooner or later. Which is a better change of address for those who die in the Lord, yet we should want to do more in this life for Him, in gratitude for what he has done.
I have not been in your degree of danger, but though that is not the same as your situation. i have been threatened with, and received bodily violence in witnessing for Christ.
One time many years ago a man put a knife to my throat for standing outside a evil place and warning souls not to go in there but to turn to Christ. He asked me how long I was going to do this, and I said “As long as the Lord would have me to.” He was not angry, but responded, “You do not understand what I mean,” and put a knife to my throat. But I had already put myself in the hands of God, since it was His “idea” for me to be doing this, and I knew that nothing could touch me unless it passed by the throne of God, as it were, and He allowed it.
He then moved the knife down my shirt and cut a button off it, saying, “I love it, you did not even flinch” (yes, the guy was a “little off”) and then invited me to get something to eat at the stand down the street. And I went with him to witness to him (because I sensed my job was done, and was hungry)!
I not claim this compares with what you endured, nor do i often walk in such degree of surrender to the Lord, but know that the Lord is in control, though we need to walk according to His word and be led by His Spirit.
Oh Bunny, I’m so sorry that you had to go through that. Thank God you made it out alive. God bless you!
Praise God you lived to tell the tale. I will pray for your emotional healing.