Sample Scenario - How do you handle it?

What a wonderful world this would be if some people would spend as much time at the range practicing and training with their weapons instead of sitting at the computer thinking of ways to justify using them!
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You need a good balance of both. And since you don't know the training regimes of the posters here, that is sort of an assumption is it not?
 
Kind of surprising that the highest end training events do lots of FOF to put you in ambiguous situations so you can get a schema of how to act.

Police and civilians do this. The folks who go to those training events like the Polite Society and NTI usually have a good handle on gun basics and practice those also.

Practicing on the square range is insufficient, if you really want to be HSLD - of course, that's hard for us FOG types.
 
About 9 - 10 years ago I was driving with my then girlfriend now wife home. We were in a semi-residential area, the car in front of us was only going 10 mph or so. This is about Midnight or so. We kept our distance waiting to turn off. At some point they threw something out the window of their car towards our vehicle. I remember not thinking and hitting the high beams. This was 100% a mistake on my part. As soon as the high beams went on, 3 additional heads popped up from the back seat. At this point we were able to turn off, unfortunately the car in front of us also quickly turned around and began to follow us. Neither of us had a cell phone to call for assistance so we kept driving with the intention of pulling into a local fire station that was 4 miles or so away. At that time it seemed like the safest place to go. The car continued to follow closely, flashing their lights and trying to pass. We were in a large SUV and at one point they were able to get around us. They driver stopped the car and 2 people quickly got out. One of them holding a bat. I can very clearly remember thinking that backing up at night while panicked may very well put us into a situation where our vehicle might not be able to retreat should they turn around and again follow. Fortunately there was enough room to the right hand side of the car to drive around and through a yard without hitting the car or the person. The part that frightened me the most was the fact that should the person with the bat get in our way, I wasn’t going to stop. This all occurred within a few seconds. Fortunately we were now in front as they again began to follow and I was able to make it to a main road where we drove through the center median and were able to go in the opposite directly without them following.
 
1. How could this situation have been better handled to begin with in order to avoid being in the situation you are now?
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Well, I probably wouldn't stop until the punks were pulled over by the police I'd summoned on my cell phone after I stayed in contact with the dispatcher long enough to guide them to my location---or let them guide me.

We could say the passenger shouldn't have communicated with them, but that wouldn't be a guarantee of peace.

Maybe the punks were cut off. Watch your driving.
 
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