did you get his plate number and report him to the pd?
would you feel differently had it been a 250lb+ white guy?
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You did good to avoid the conflict. Did you report the incident to the police?
My only concern is that during evasive driving you may have hazarded other people.
Bottom line is you made a call in a tough spot and all ended well.
Fortunately, you did not have to use your weapon. That's always a good thing. I hope you reported the incident (leaving out the weapon stuff) to the police.
Did you get his license plate and report him to the police? For attempted assault with a deadly weapon (yes, the car), for starters?
Aim for the bling-bling.
Call the cops on the guy.
This kind of crap happens every day. Today an idiot ran a red light and almost clipped me in a crosswalk.
Well, my father was in a store and threatened with a knife. He opened his coat to show his concealed weapon and the guy ran away. Another guy I know had a car jacker open up his passenger side door and found him holding his concealed weapon, he ran away. So, I guess if the guy saw you had a gun....he would have ran away.
Wasn't this sort of scenario covered when you took the test for a ccp? I would talk to the police or an attorney, as you have no idea how reliable the info would be from an anonymous web site...besides, I doubt it would stand up in court, if you said some guy on FR said I could shoot.
Sound like you did the right thing.
Being too trigger happy would have put you in a heap of trouble in CT.
But, had circumstances been different, explaining yourself to a judge beats explaining yourself to St. Peter.
If you were unable to escape the car out of the door opposite your side and if he swung anything at the window that had a risk of breaching the window and harming you, then fire away...that would be justified.
It seems as though you did the right thing. However, if you shot guy and he was only yelling, you would be in for a whole host of legal troubles.
You did the smart thing by getting out of the area.
If he had opened your car door or tried to break the window you would have reasonably been in fear for your life.
I had a similar incident recently and was standing nearby when the cops told the guy (I called and they came out to get him) that he was lucky I hadn't shot him when he had tried to open my door and that if I had that I wouldn't have been charged. Having had surgery only a week prior to this nutjob coming after me I was in no position to be able to defend myself.
That may differ from state to state however.
The incident you describe is virtually identical to one that happened in (I think) Dallas, not long after Texas passed their CCW licensing system. In that case, like you, the gun-owner was trapped in traffic and physically accosted by his attacker, who actually had reached into his vehicle and was beating on him. The gun-owner retrieved his weapon and killed the guy. The courts found that the gun-owner had acted entirely correctly.
Take the Bush 2004 sticker off of your vehicle.
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I'm sorry that I don't have a solution for you to the question you posted. I only offer one small bit of advice, which I recognize might not have helped in this specific situation:
Anytime you come to red light, stop sign, or other situation where you have to come to a complete stop, and there are cars in front of you, don't park on the bumper of the guy in front of you. Leave a good 3-4 feet between you.
That way if you have to scoot, you have enough room to make the turn and or accelerate. Yes it might be up and over the center island or the sidewalk, but if someone's coming up to the car or already shooting, any edge might help escaping.
I would have probably followed the guy and just as he was approaching a dangerous curve at a high rate of speed, shoot his tires out.