>>I’ve been a few minutes before it or a few minutes after it
Being minutes before it or minutes after it means that you weren’t there. Someone else was there. They should have been carrying a weapon. That’s what I’m trying to say. Whether it is a crackhead, a lunatic bum, or a Jihadi, they are expecting an unarmed victim.
I have been “there” for an attack. I showed them a gun when they did not expect a gun. They ran away.
It’s the “luck of the draw” when you are there, within minutes. You can just as easily be right there.
That’s as opposed to someone sitting in their house, looking at the news, and seeing something like that reported, about 10 or 20 miles away, and they say, “I could have been there!” ... LOL ...