On a bitterly cold morning in early January of 2009, the war, in a sense, found Chris again.* What happened to him not far from his home outside Dallas never made the news, since the town involved didn’t want the publicity, but the incident certainly would have made national headlines had a reporter ever gotten a tip about it.Chris was minding his own business, fueling his pickup truck at a gas station, when he found himself at gunpoint.* Two men holding pistols demanded his truck.* Law enforcement will usually advise you to give in to the criminal in a situation like this.* And that’s good advice.* But Chris took another route.* Very calmly and coolly, he sized up which of the men was handling his pistol more comfortably.* He put his hands up and told them he was going to reach into the truck to get his keys.* Then his hand went under his coat.* From a waistband holster, he pulled his Colt 1911.* Swinging the pistol under his left armpit, he gave each robber two .45 caliber Hydra-Shock hollow-points to the chest.* By the time the cops responded to the 911 call from the terrified lady who had locked herself in a car behind Chris’s truck, the matter was settled.* Elapsed time: about ten seconds.* The service station’s security cameras caught the whole thing.I pray for anyone whose life gets so desperate that he or she chooses to resort to a life of crime, but it’s hard to resist a little cold laughter all the same: I mean, how unlucky a dumbass do you have to be to target a random guy for felony armed assault and find out he’s killed more people than smallpox?
Well done, SEAL.
