When you are getting shot at they all seem big.
Back in Cubas pre-Castro days a bunch of us Navy guys got blitzed and took a wrong turn down a pier. Back then they had a Maritime Police and one of 'em threw down on us yelling "ALTO! ALTO!". I looked down the barrel of that 7MM and felt like I was staring at the open end of a garbage can. Sobered up straight away.