“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization.”
Judith Lewis Herman
HRC to a tee
I lived on a corner lot and was standing about as far away from my front door as I could be watching my dogs water the lawn. A low-rider car with all the windows tinted so dark I could not see in pulled up next to me and all four doors opened at once. This was about 3:00 am in the morning and no one else was out on my street.
All I did was reach back and put my hand on my firearm. I could not even see the driver because of the tinted window. I assumed there was at least four people the way the four doors opened together. I knew I could not win if they were armed and got out of the vehicle. I was reaching into my pocket for a spare magazine, I had made the decision there was going to be a gun fight as soon as the first one got out of the vehicle.
I never pulled the handgun out but I looked right at the driver’s window and said “not tonight gentlemen.”
All I heard was “oh sh… he has a gun” as the doors closed and the gang banger mobile drove away. I was ready and they were not that night, I won without anyone getting hurt.