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Old July 7, 2012, 10:13 AM   #1
geetarman
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Wally world-what would you have done.

Our youngest daughter came by the house yesterday and related an incident that occurred the day before.

She moved back to Arizona last year from the DC area and she was working in the intelligence community and she is pretty aware of her surroundings.

In the DC area, she did not carry as part of her job and has not been carrying here because she did not feel the need.

She is engaged and drives a BMW. She has a G30, G27 and a Sig P226.

Anyway, she has been away from the area for a while and dropped by the Walmart at Stapely and Baseline. For you who live in the Phoenix area, you will know about that place. In short, it has changed a lot and there is a lot that goes on there. People who know, stay away from there.

She pulls in after work about 4 in the afternoon. As she walks in to the store, she sees two guys carefully watching her. As she told me, she did not know if they saw the car or her ring but they were interested. Those two were joined by a third young man.

Our daughter became concerned and started moving toward the cashier. As she was doing that, one of the young men moved to block her way. As she turned to an alternate route, another blocked her way.

Now she is fully alert and digs in her purse to grab her cell phone. She makes eye contact with one of the men and pretends to dial her phone and the three guys disappear.

She hot foots it to the register and tells the cashier she has changed her mind about shopping and requests an escort to her car. The store agrees and a security person began walking her to the car, and these same three men are at the front of the store, watching every move.

It just happens that a local police officer is at the front door in a black and white and our daughter walks up to him and tells him what is going on and the policeman gets out and walks her to her car and waits until she has it started and the doors locked.

As our daughter said she did not know if she was about to be the victim of a strong arm robbery or car jacking. She then used some of the training she received in DC to find out if she was being followed and took a round about way home.

She asked me what I would recommend she do.

She does have a CCW and she CAN shoot.

The place where she works, now will permit concealed weapons in private cars on company property. I am not sure what Walmart policy is, but I know my son is ALWAYS armed when he goes there.

I showed her a PPK that I have and told her I would give it to her to put in her purse. I told her, she would be better served with the G30 in her purse, I would not give a hoot what Walmart thought.

In short, she will not go there again and that is a positive thing. She was fully engaged in picking up on the people eyeballing her and she had the smarts to make her way to the cashier and ask for security and then engage the local police to see her safely to her car.

The point is, this situation can occur at ANY store. If you have not been in a particular store for a number of years, you do not know what changes have taken place.

She learned a valuable lesson and will not repeat the actions that could have led to real problems.

What would you folks have done differently?

For me, I have never been one to carry everyday. I am rethinking that.

When I am out, I usually have a G30 in my truck. I am really starting to think that just in the truck might be too little and too late.

I would love to hear some feedback.

Geetarman

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