Hi. This is just a question that i've had and no it's not for me to go out and start shooting people.
Well i'm almost 6ft but i'm very skinny. I honestly, couldn't hurt a fly, they are just too fast for me. Well last week I was coming out of the movie theater with my girlfriend, trying to have a good time. It's abotu 1am when I get out of the movie, so there are very little cars in the parking lot. I like to park on the side where there are usually plenty of spots to park, I dont mind the exercise. Well when we were walking to my car we notice a group of men looking at me funny but I brush it off and pretend I dont see them. Well as we passed them by, I noticed that 3 of them were following me and my girlfriend. I could hear them walking behind us. Okay here is the crazy part.
I am about to let my girlfriend into the car, and
one of them says "hey, cute girlfriend".
I'm just like "thanks". By now my girlfriend gets in the car and i think its odd that i'm practically the only within a 30 ft radius of my car and theyre right next to me.
I ask the 3 men "Can I help you guys?".
One of the guys says, "yeah, you have a nice car, do you have any money I can borrow?"
and I say "sorry no, i'm in a hurry and i gott ago"
So one of the stockier black guys says, "Fuck that your lying."
I proceed to do the nice guy thing and say, "Look, I dont want any trouble"
This is when I felt someone punch me right in the neck. I stumbled to the ground and as I get up I went for one guys legs to put him on the ground and I get punched in the ribs by someone else. Really, I was so helpless. Each one of these guys were stocky and one of them was like 6'2. I punched one guy in the lip twice and then I got grabbed from the back in the full nelson and the two other guys just started beating on me real hard. This is when the other group of their friends come and watch. By then I just fell to the ground and they took my wallet and my watch. And they were laughing "We just wanted to borrow some money"
Well the cops came and I filed a report. I couldn't do anything about it though because they didn't drive there or anything. The thing that sucks is none of the people that were leaving the movies called the police, they were just watching also.
This incident has gotten me so frustrated. I want to know the laws of carrying a concealed weapon. I've been contemplating weather or not I need some way to protect myself. These guys could easily have killed me if they hit me in the wrong spot. I mean one of them looked like a body builder and i'm just a frail skinny guy. To make it worse it was in front of my girlfriend.
So
Question 1: Does washington state law allow concealed weapons and to what degree?
Question 2: If ever in a situation like being mugged or feeling threatened, am I allowed to use the concealed weapon. Not to kill. I dont want to kill anyone. But what if I tell them to back off with the gun and they charge at me, can I shoot them?
Well i'm almost 6ft but i'm very skinny. I honestly, couldn't hurt a fly, they are just too fast for me. Well last week I was coming out of the movie theater with my girlfriend, trying to have a good time. It's abotu 1am when I get out of the movie, so there are very little cars in the parking lot. I like to park on the side where there are usually plenty of spots to park, I dont mind the exercise. Well when we were walking to my car we notice a group of men looking at me funny but I brush it off and pretend I dont see them. Well as we passed them by, I noticed that 3 of them were following me and my girlfriend. I could hear them walking behind us. Okay here is the crazy part.
I am about to let my girlfriend into the car, and
one of them says "hey, cute girlfriend".
I'm just like "thanks". By now my girlfriend gets in the car and i think its odd that i'm practically the only within a 30 ft radius of my car and theyre right next to me.
I ask the 3 men "Can I help you guys?".
One of the guys says, "yeah, you have a nice car, do you have any money I can borrow?"
and I say "sorry no, i'm in a hurry and i gott ago"
So one of the stockier black guys says, "Fuck that your lying."
I proceed to do the nice guy thing and say, "Look, I dont want any trouble"
This is when I felt someone punch me right in the neck. I stumbled to the ground and as I get up I went for one guys legs to put him on the ground and I get punched in the ribs by someone else. Really, I was so helpless. Each one of these guys were stocky and one of them was like 6'2. I punched one guy in the lip twice and then I got grabbed from the back in the full nelson and the two other guys just started beating on me real hard. This is when the other group of their friends come and watch. By then I just fell to the ground and they took my wallet and my watch. And they were laughing "We just wanted to borrow some money"
Well the cops came and I filed a report. I couldn't do anything about it though because they didn't drive there or anything. The thing that sucks is none of the people that were leaving the movies called the police, they were just watching also.
This incident has gotten me so frustrated. I want to know the laws of carrying a concealed weapon. I've been contemplating weather or not I need some way to protect myself. These guys could easily have killed me if they hit me in the wrong spot. I mean one of them looked like a body builder and i'm just a frail skinny guy. To make it worse it was in front of my girlfriend.
So
Question 1: Does washington state law allow concealed weapons and to what degree?
Question 2: If ever in a situation like being mugged or feeling threatened, am I allowed to use the concealed weapon. Not to kill. I dont want to kill anyone. But what if I tell them to back off with the gun and they charge at me, can I shoot them?