Poll of the Day > Have you ever been threatened with a gun before?

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Yeah once as a kid. I was at a friends house and he pulled a gun out of his dads closet and pointed it at me. He said he meant it as a joke but he also said it was loaded with the safety off.

It was scary but for whatever reason I didnt tell my parents for a few weeks until the kid got in trouble for some other stuff and they asked me if he had ever offered me drugs or anything.
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Twice, that I can think of right now. Both times I was twelve or younger.
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I question if I've ever even seen a gun in real life before.

No people tend to leave you alone with one.

Yeah. Fun times.

One time this kid said he had a gun and that he would shoot me unless I gave him my mp3 player. But he wouldn't show me the gun, so I don't think he really had one. I ended up convincing him to give me the player back somehow
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I was robbed at gunpoint once.
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no i dont live in a country where people brandish guns at like grocery stores

my uncle however was (accidentally) shot by a hunting rifle as a kid
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Yes. Guy thought I was trying to hook up with his cousin that lived with him (he was VERY protective of her because her parents died when she was young).

Didn't matter that she was about 5 years older than me and I was a minor. That, plus the fact that she already had a boyfriend and the whole being a lot better looking than me should have been a clue there was nothing going to happen.
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Yeah, my dad used a pistol to keep us in line. If we left the house for any reason at all, he'd be waiting at the door with the gun ready and interrogate us. Then of course the time he went crazy and was gonna kill me with it.

A few other times too, but those were more just people being dumb/reckless rather than anything malicious.
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I'm an outlier I'm guessing. I worked 2 jobs where getting guns aimed at you is common place. I was once threatened by a man with a shotgun over a poker game, but he didn't point it at me.

gun no... sword yes
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I've been robbed a couple of times, yes.
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EvilMegas posted...

I've been robbed a couple of times, yes.

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No, unfortunately.

I haven't been threatened with any weapon.
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...

I was robbed at gunpoint once.

Damn. I bet that was scary.
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no, I'm not american.
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VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

yeah, criminals in other countries don't use guns, they wouldn't want to break the law.....
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No. TBH itd be super scary lol
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Sorta? Had a high school party way out in the desert one night, and these three drunk old guys (50s, maybe) showed up and started being total creeps. Creeping on the high school girls, drinking our beer, being overall gross, etc. at some point one went to their truck and got a gun and started shooting up into the air. People got spooked and left. The guy meant it as a joke, so I wouldnt exactly call it a threat, but he was drunk and no one knew him and we were in the middle of nowhere so it was pretty threatening.

Pointed no but ive been given a warning shot by someone before.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

yeah, criminals in other countries don't use guns, they wouldn't want to break the law.....

Literally every non-American itt: No
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

yeah, criminals in other countries don't use guns, they wouldn't want to break the law.....

Honestly, not a lot of them do here. Where guns are used, they're almost exclusively used by gang-members fighting with other gang-members.
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darkknight109 posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

yeah, criminals in other countries don't use guns, they wouldn't want to break the law.....

Honestly, not a lot of them do here. Where guns are used, they're almost exclusively used by gang-members fighting with other gang-members.

When I had the warning shot I mentioned in my post I understand. Though I wasnt aware at the time I was tresspassing on someones private property. So yeah you are mostly right. Ive had family members who where quick to pull a gun though. Mostly for threat tactics though as mostly theyve never actually pulled the trigger
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One time when I was like 13, as everyday after high school, I went to the Arcades. Then was this kid, with his hand under his hood pointing at me, saying he had a gun and that he would shoot me unless I gave him my money. But I didn't believe it, and I didn'd have a lot of money... so he just left and I never saw the "gun".
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mooreandrew58 posted...

When I had the warning shot I mentioned in my post I understand. Though I wasnt aware at the time I was tresspassing on someones private property.

Hell, the idea of a "warning shot" is not something you see here either. Even in the rural areas where farmers have guns, they use them to see off coyotes and other pests, not trespassers.

I occasionally do field work where I need to go out and conduct readings on test posts that have been placed along pipeline right-of-ways, many of which are located on private property. In Canada, that's generally not a big issue, even if the test post was installed via eminent domain (i.e. without the landowner's cooperation) - occasionally there are confrontations where landowners demand to know what we're doing on their property (we do notify them beforehand, but sometimes those calls/mails get missed) and I've had the cops called on me twice as a result, but that's it.

In the US, though? You do not go out for any test-post inspections unless you have signed acknowledgement from the landowner. Legally speaking, we don't need permission from the landowner to access the test post, but it's still not uncommon to have a gun pointed (or shot) at you if the landowner doesn't want you there (which is absolutely fucking bonkers in my mind), so if we aren't able to get a hold of the landowner, that test post is not getting inspected and the landowner gets to deal with an oil spill on their property if there's a problem we didn't catch as a result.
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darkknight109 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

When I had the warning shot I mentioned in my post I understand. Though I wasnt aware at the time I was tresspassing on someones private property.

Hell, the idea of a "warning shot" is not something you see here either. Even in the rural areas where farmers have guns, they use them to see off coyotes and other pests, not trespassers.

I occasionally do field work where I need to go out and conduct readings on test posts that have been placed along pipeline right-of-ways, many of which are located on private property. In Canada, that's generally not a big issue, even if the test post was installed via eminent domain (i.e. without the landowner's cooperation) - occasionally there are confrontations where landowners demand to know what we're doing on their property (we do notify them beforehand, but sometimes those calls/mails get missed) and I've had the cops called on me twice as a result, but that's it.

In the US, though? You do not go out for any test-post inspections unless you have signed acknowledgement from the landowner. Legally speaking, we don't need permission from the landowner to access the test post, but it's still not uncommon to have a gun pointed (or shot) at you if the landowner doesn't want you there (which is absolutely fucking bonkers in my mind), so if we aren't able to get a hold of the landowner, that test post is not getting inspected and the landowner gets to deal with an oil spill on their property if there's a problem we didn't catch as a result.

We where just dumb teenagers. I personally didnt realize it was someones property. All I could see was a shed that looked long abandoned. But the guts house itself i couldnt see. One of my friends picked up threw and broke a really old looking soda bottle and it wasnt long after there was a gunshot followed by a ""get the fuck off my property!"
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VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

I live in one of the five most dangerous US cities, but since I'm neither a drug dealer nor a gang member, the answer is no.
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Not directly but when I was in middle school a kid threatened to bring a BB gun to school and shoot me. But it was a diffferent time and I passed it off as being too outrageous to be real. Nothing happened.

And apparently (according to one my brothers), back when I was a kid, a neighborhood kid once aimed at me with a gun from about 150 yards while I was sitting on a porch.
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these poll results are kind of depressing. where do you guys who answered yes live?
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

VeeVees posted...

no, I'm not american.

yeah, criminals in other countries don't use guns, they wouldn't want to break the law.....

lol, Americans thinking it's actually easy for criminals anywhere to get guns. They have to have connections to even have to the option to purchase one. Then there's the price. They are not going to spend all that money when they can just rob people with knives. And of course, if they get caught with a gun it's going to a more severe sentence.
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all the fucking time back when i was process serving
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no gun. but one time someone claimed they had a knife in their coat and they would stab me. it was a crazy person. I have no idea if the knife existed. but I was terrified in my head but kept my cool and made no eye contact with him or said a word. and just walked away and he followed for a while making me scream internally. but eventually he stopped and veered off somewhere else. I did nothing to him. was waiting for a crosswalk light to turn, and he was standing next to me. I was actually on the phone leaving a voice mail to my mom about something. and he heard me talking into the phone then looked at my face and screamed about knowing who I was and that he had told me to never show my face again. he also had a girlfriend who was laughing and cheering him on. they were either insane or on drugs

I had a cop point a gun at me once but he wasnt actually threatening to shoot me

I have had them pointed at me, and got shot in the leg once, but nope, never been threatened by one.
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Zikten posted,,,

one time someone claimed they had a knife in their coat and they would stab me.

That reminds me of an incident in high school. Our lockers were assigned alphabetically by our last names, it just so happened that mine always ended up next to the most popular jock. So of course it was the gathering place for him and his lackeys between classes and usually ended with mine being blocked or messed with. Anyway, one time I was grabbing something from mine when approached me from behind. He grabbed me by the shoulder, turned me around, pressed his arm against my chest and pulled out a big hunting knife. He put it to my throat and said he could kill me right there. I wasn't really impressed so, so I just told him it was a nice knife. He asked if I was afraid of him, and I said not really. He put it away a few seconds later. I knew he wouldn't do anything, so I don't know why he put in the show the one time when no one was around. I figured it'd be something he'd do to impress his friends, but I guess not.
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not exactly threatened, but i was riding home from a concert a few weeks ago. heard a loud pop/bang whatever and the window next to me in the car was suddenly cracked and shattered. there was a clear impact point in the window like 3 inches from where my head was. not 100% sure so i can't quite say what it was but i'm glad the angle was off just enough that i didn't die either way.
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Yes and no.

Road rage situation. Long story short... he put his hand in his jacket pocket AS IF he had a gun. I didnt give a fuck and continued driving. End of story.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

We where just dumb teenagers. I personally didnt realize it was someones property. All I could see was a shed that looked long abandoned. But the guts house itself i couldnt see. One of my friends picked up threw and broke a really old looking soda bottle and it wasnt long after there was a gunshot followed by a ""get the fuck off my property!"

I didn't know homeless people could afford guns.
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Revelation34 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

We where just dumb teenagers. I personally didnt realize it was someones property. All I could see was a shed that looked long abandoned. But the guts house itself i couldnt see. One of my friends picked up threw and broke a really old looking soda bottle and it wasnt long after there was a gunshot followed by a ""get the fuck off my property!"

I didn't know homeless people could afford guns.

Heavily and i mean heavily wooded area. I couldnt see his actual house through the trees. He didnt come out of the shed. He came from around the trees. I laugh about it but I do feel bad i left my friends in the dust. They woulda never caught up to me had i not gotten clotheslined by a vine in the woods

But yeah wooded area is how it happened we had been exploring new areas in the woods as thats where we hung out
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miki_sauvester posted...

I question if I've ever even seen a gun in real life before.

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Revelation34 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

We where just dumb teenagers. I personally didnt realize it was someones property. All I could see was a shed that looked long abandoned. But the guts house itself i couldnt see. One of my friends picked up threw and broke a really old looking soda bottle and it wasnt long after there was a gunshot followed by a ""get the fuck off my property!"

I didn't know homeless people could afford guns.

Youre not too quick huh

Cacciato posted...

Youre not too quick huh

Not really. I don't run that often.
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So there was a shooting at a Costco in Southern CA recently.
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no, but a homeless man tried masturbating on my car once. it looked like he had a $5 foot long, ok?
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Pretty sure anyone who claims to have a gun but doesn't show it doesn't actually have one.
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Zareth posted...

Pretty sure anyone who claims to have a gun but doesn't show it doesn't actually have one.

You mean the hiding it under a jacket thing? Im sure thats mostly true but it probably depends toom like if there are other people around I can see why theyd do it. If no one else is around they have no reason to hide it.
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No.
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