At that point, me running away would have been a poor tactic. He already had a firearm and was already out of his vehicle. I gave myself the advantage over the situation by drawing my arm first, so any aggressive movement past that point I could have quickly ended the threat. If I tried to get out of my car and retreat down the hill, I am giving him tons of opportunity to get his weapon drawn and fire upon me. Trying to manipulate my car backwards on a tight lane on a sharp curve, again I would have to remove my focus from the aggressor and would give him the chance do whatever he pleased. He had no options with the tactic I chose. My guns was ready, aimed and just 4#s of finger pressure away from stopping any further action that could have caused me harm. I have obviously been thinking back on this altercation constantly since it happened, I can't think of anything I would have done differently, at least AFTER the altercation outside the car began. My only bad move, IMO, was putting the in reverse and having my left foot on the break, that was out of thinking retreat was a possible option, but as the suspect wad so close and the threat was imminent, backing my car up would have been a bad choice and most likely have put my car in the ditch. But if a shooting occured and my foot left the brake pedal then I could have lost the upper hand, possibly. As for the previous poster, no.....I was not going slow in the fast lane, but I was leaving the fast lane to pass the slow people many times. After the man gave me his explanation, I understood what he was doing, it was just silly. As we were both going at a high rate of spped and passing people in the fast lane, he was flashing when he assumed I wanted to pass a slower driver in front of me to say that he was letting me over or I was okay to get over. He was playing traffic racing games and thought ibwas in on the fun, and apparently he thought a porche that was apparently in our pack was also part of the party. Me.....I was ordering take out to get home and fees my wife and child and getting frustrated by all the nit wits that think they need to go 20 under when the roads are a little damp. But regardless, I got frustrated with him after that last cut off, when I was in the slow lane and approaching my exit and that's when I decided to inact my childish revenge of riding his arse and shining my brights in his mirror. But after all the silliness, I don't know w I could have better handled the threat once it began, I couldn't see what he was doing as the curve is steep and sharp, I didn't know I was being blocked in until I was withing 15 feet of his vehicle. I was armed a ready as soon as I saw he was blocking, and aimed and on target before he left his vehicle. If he was still inside and flashed a firearm before exiting, maybe I could have mad the choice to retreat, but leaving my vehicle which was the ONLY possible cover for hundreds of feet, and running on foot woild havve been silly.
I mean after all, the other guy was in a Focus wagon.
. I've never gotten a speeding ticket in 20 years of driving, though I've lost count of the number of cars that "found the land mine" minutes after blasting past me.
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