cosmolinelover
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So its around 7pm, yesterday evening. I've just returned from the University and I'm currently waiting for my buddy to show up. We've got a big test to study for. I'm chatting with the apartment manager in my apartment when we hear some odd noises. We step outside and there's some kind of commotion going on about 5 doors down from mine. I ignore it as just another crazy drunken meth head thug acting inappropriately (sadly thats the status quo around here these days) and I step back inside my apartment.
Moments later I hear a loud BANG and right away my stomach drops, this was no firecracker, something was definately wrong. Next thing my phone is ringing and its my buddy and he tells me he's huddled behind a trash dumpster out front and as far as he can tell someone just discharged a shotgun in the parking lot. At this point we don't know whats going on, only that its not good, and my buddy needs to get out of the potential line of fire. So we choreograph a way for him to make it to my front door with out putting himself in the line of fire (as best as we can at least) and he gets inside. At that point he tells me that as he was walking up to my apartment he witnessed a man toting a shotgun and pointing it at a group of people threatening to "kill them all" (in more colorful thug terms).
So I get to the safe, grab my Glock 22 and give it to my buddy (he being a veteran seemed a lot calmer than me about the situation), and I upgrade to a Beretta since the kel-tec in my hip is feeling mighty small considering there's a guy blasting a shotgun outfront.
At this point, we don't know if anyone has been wounded, or whether the guy is still out there or not. I call the police and they seem more concerned if someone has been shot as opposed to someone currently shooting. But nonetheless they say they're on their way.
So I call the apartment manager, knowing he was outside during the incident, to get a report. He tells me the wacko got in his truck and drunkenly drove away. We check the scene once we know its clear, and it apperas no one was hurt, wherever the man shot he didn't apparently hit anyone (that we know about).
20+ minutes later the Police show up, they take a statement from the men outside, never bother to talk to me or my buddy who witnessed the incident. And before you know it they're gone.
After the fact I found out the guy was apparently beating his wife, and threatening to kill her, apparently she escaped the apartment and began pounding on people's doors for help. Then when she got the necessary attention the BG came out and threatened to kill the people attempting to come to her aid (and yes he pointed the shotgun at all of them).
I'm still shaken up about this incident. I know I probably did a million things wrong yesterday but I'm just glad no one was hurt. In retrospect I keep thinking other courses of action would've been more appropriate, like defending the people in the line of fire (which we both knew were there). However at the time it seemed illogical to even look out my window and potentially open myself up to fire.
I have no doubt that had I been outside at the time I would have had no choice but to defend myself and everyone else around me. However I chose to stay inside, and ultimately I could have failed in protecting others.
I don't know what else to say, other than I'm really shaken up about the incident. I hope I did the right thing, it sure seemed at the time the best thing to do was to take cover and stay safe. I'd like to think that if the situation would have progressed further I would have taken action, but now I'm second guessing myself. Getting in a gun fight is just not something that I find very appealing.
Let me know what you guys think, what you would have done, whether what I did was the safe thing or the lame thing. I don't know what would have happened had I been outside or had my buddy been armed (he usually is), but it could've played out far worse I guess.
-Cosmo
Moments later I hear a loud BANG and right away my stomach drops, this was no firecracker, something was definately wrong. Next thing my phone is ringing and its my buddy and he tells me he's huddled behind a trash dumpster out front and as far as he can tell someone just discharged a shotgun in the parking lot. At this point we don't know whats going on, only that its not good, and my buddy needs to get out of the potential line of fire. So we choreograph a way for him to make it to my front door with out putting himself in the line of fire (as best as we can at least) and he gets inside. At that point he tells me that as he was walking up to my apartment he witnessed a man toting a shotgun and pointing it at a group of people threatening to "kill them all" (in more colorful thug terms).
So I get to the safe, grab my Glock 22 and give it to my buddy (he being a veteran seemed a lot calmer than me about the situation), and I upgrade to a Beretta since the kel-tec in my hip is feeling mighty small considering there's a guy blasting a shotgun outfront.
At this point, we don't know if anyone has been wounded, or whether the guy is still out there or not. I call the police and they seem more concerned if someone has been shot as opposed to someone currently shooting. But nonetheless they say they're on their way.
So I call the apartment manager, knowing he was outside during the incident, to get a report. He tells me the wacko got in his truck and drunkenly drove away. We check the scene once we know its clear, and it apperas no one was hurt, wherever the man shot he didn't apparently hit anyone (that we know about).
20+ minutes later the Police show up, they take a statement from the men outside, never bother to talk to me or my buddy who witnessed the incident. And before you know it they're gone.
After the fact I found out the guy was apparently beating his wife, and threatening to kill her, apparently she escaped the apartment and began pounding on people's doors for help. Then when she got the necessary attention the BG came out and threatened to kill the people attempting to come to her aid (and yes he pointed the shotgun at all of them).
I'm still shaken up about this incident. I know I probably did a million things wrong yesterday but I'm just glad no one was hurt. In retrospect I keep thinking other courses of action would've been more appropriate, like defending the people in the line of fire (which we both knew were there). However at the time it seemed illogical to even look out my window and potentially open myself up to fire.
I have no doubt that had I been outside at the time I would have had no choice but to defend myself and everyone else around me. However I chose to stay inside, and ultimately I could have failed in protecting others.
I don't know what else to say, other than I'm really shaken up about the incident. I hope I did the right thing, it sure seemed at the time the best thing to do was to take cover and stay safe. I'd like to think that if the situation would have progressed further I would have taken action, but now I'm second guessing myself. Getting in a gun fight is just not something that I find very appealing.
Let me know what you guys think, what you would have done, whether what I did was the safe thing or the lame thing. I don't know what would have happened had I been outside or had my buddy been armed (he usually is), but it could've played out far worse I guess.
-Cosmo