[CholeraJoe]

Nothing I did was threatening. The weapon on my hip was no more obtrusive than my bald head.

BTW, I carry almost every day.

[The Red Zone]

Haw haw, then why you so quick to give credit to your gun. You can't play that shell game with us, boy.

[Jacvin]

You're lucky they were probably just good kids having some fun.

Had they been young tough gang members they would have beaten you down and taken your gun away or maybe they would have just shot you and then taken your gun. Don't let a holstrered gun give you a false sense of security, short skinny old bald guys are no match for a real group of young predators gun or no gun.

BTW most places that serve food after four A.M. make their money from the young drunk after the bar closes crowd, not from crazy old insomniacs.

I'm a gun owner and lifelong NRA member and what you did was stupid and wrong. You implied a threat and created a situation where you and/or those kids could have lost their life.

You should be ashamed of yourself. You acted like a bully just because you had a gun.

[ThinkingMan]

So last night I took my wife out, we had a few drinks and I am sure the conversation we were having in Perkins at 2:00 in the morning was not real quiet. But then, most of the other customers were feeling pretty happy as well. Would you have taken the whole lot of us out so you could have some quiet? My 5 kids would have been awful dissapointed if we had not come home because I told you to sit down or leave and you had felt the need to act.

Where do you live that your firearm has kept you out of trouble? Have you stopped to examine if your assumption is a logical fallacy? I have NEVER carried a firearm in public- and so far my non-firearm has kept me out of trouble. Do you also credit your gun with the fact that the sun has risen every day since you started wearing it?

[Willie Green]

Nothing I did was threatening. The weapon on my hip was no more obtrusive than my bald head.

It just goes to show, you never know what kind of riff-raff you'll run into in a diner at 4:30 in the morning. With the vastness of cyberspace, I imagine there must be a forum somewhere where 10 young adults have posted a vanity about their close encounter with an armed, bald-headed grump who disrupted their breakfast.

Thankfully, they had the commonsense not to aggravate or confront this weird loner.
Somebody could've gotten hurt.

And I bet you didn't notice, the waitress probably switched you to decaff...

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

Nothing I did was threatening. The weapon on my hip was no more obtrusive than my bald head.

Did it occur to you that one of those muscular young men could have jumped you & grabbed your gun?

And pointed it at you?