bubbaturbo
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Several years ago while living in Memphis I walked into computer store while wife and baby went next door to baby "superstore". After I'm finished, I went next door to find family. Automatic doors do not open and employee pulls them open for me and says they are having a problem (I think she means with doors). I walk to back of store where I think wife will be and where I also hear a loud disturbance. I walk up on a man in jeans, t-shirt and baseball cap trying very forcefully to take a purse away from a woman who is laying on the floor yelling for the police. She has also wet her pants. This bizarre scene is being observed by 5-6 people, some of whom are obviously employees, who are literally standing there with their arms crossed doing nothing. I am wearing concealed pistol but have no idea what to do though I think I should help somehow. I do remember the lawyer in the concealed carry class telling us over and over that our guns were for SELF-defense and to be careful about getting involved in situations we know nothing about. I decide to find wife and baby and leave. On the way out, the employee at the door informs me that woman was shoplifter and man in jeans is attempting to arrest her (and is possibly worried that there is a gun in the purse.) I started to say something to her about giving more information to customers when they had a "problem" but I just left and considered myself lucky even though I felt like a bystander who did nothing to help when someone was in trouble. I might have been more inclined to step in if I had not had a gun although that seems kind of stupid too. Whadayathink?