Gun Control: Good or Bad?

[surfer1024]

So, Tonight is Halloween. I was unicycling at dusk, practicing some street tricks and flatland at a torn down house that has a nice flat concrete foundation that's good for practicing on. This abandoned property is 3 blocks away from my house about but less than a half block from a very bad neighborhood(bordering on ghetto). It's getting late and I'm trying to land a clean fifthflip.

After bailing on a try, I see over 20 black kids (most likely a small gang) walking down out of this neighborhood toward my adjacent neighborhood where I'm practicing. I knew these kids(all about my age) were up to no good. I had a camera and shinpads and a few other things scattered around. I quickly threw all my stuff into my back pack and unicycled(on my trials) down the block away from them and in the direction of my house.

About 3 of the kids see me and start running after me. I'm unicycling calmly, looking back trying to be inconspicuous, as 1 runs ahead of the others right up to me. Less than 5 feet away, he throws an egg as hard as he can, and it splatters on my backpack and shirt and runs down on my jeans.

A guy (black also) is coming out of his house to go to his car to go somewhere. He sees them coming, and all of the rest following behind. He starts cursing at them telling them to get out of the neighborhood and challenging them. Meanwhile, they all come up and start surrounding him, not paying so much attention to me anymore, because hes ready to fight them, and I'm standing there, ready to start swinging my unicycle if necessary.

Over 20 of them have surrounded him while I'm just standing there. A lady comes out (I think his wife or sister) and starts yelling at them too. The whole gang starts yelling at each other trying to hype each other up to attack saying stuff like "YOU GUYS READY!!!!???!!! about to attack the guy.

By this time the kids are looking out the door and window of the house, and a neighbor or two has come out to see whats going on. The lady yells to the kids, "Go get grandpa!!!!!" and they run away into the house.

The grandpa runs out a few seconds later. As soon as he opens the front door, all the kids start bolting, half down one way of the block, half down the other. I didn't know why they did, until I see he has a gun(some type of older pistol) is his hand. He fires 2 or 3 shots in the air and then is pointing the gun at them as they all run away as fast as they can. The original dude runs after them, chasing them and the grandpa also runs halfway down the block. He's really mad, and hes cursing at them. He said some stuff like, "I'm gonna kill one of these Motha F***ers one day, IM NOT PLAYIN."

So I'm just sorta chillin there, really happy that he came out and pulled out the gun. By this time all the neighbors are out and the grandpa is openly walking down the block with the gun, but then he goes back inside the house. I talk to some people for a few minutes then I go home, just a few blocks away and tell my parents, that I almost got jumped.

So was the guy right to pull out the gun? What if he didn't have it? The police in this part of the neigborhood would have taken like 10mins to get there, by then I don't know what would have happened especially with stuff like this happening around Chicago: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news...derrion_albert

Discuss. I'm happy he had the gun.


-Zach