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So over the weekend I was taking the T going home alone from watching the Superbowl with some friends in Boston. While I am in the train car some drunk chick starts throwing sexual connotations towards me, I just smirk and tell her I am taken. Probably a minute passes before she gets up and approaches me placing her hand on my chest as I didn't notice her approaching because I was staring at my cellphone. I gently take her hand off my chest and tell her in a firm voice that I am not interested and if she could sit back down. This is where things take a wrong turn, apparently her also drunk brother took this the wrong way and screamed at me to not touch his sister. The brother and 4 other guys presumably his friends all get up talking trash to me and starting to close the distance. I'm already standing at this point and although it didn't help the situation I was chuckling a bit at the idiots. As you can probably tell the situation is very tense now and is moving in a violent direction. They are screaming how they are going to kick my a** and head stomp me.
So here I am clearly outnumbered and what looks like a situation where they are going to try to jump me as like I said they were closing the distance and try to rush me. To make the story short the situation got resolved when one of the MBTA workers who was in the same train car as us told the drunk idiots repeatedly to calm down or transit police will be alerted. Now being a ccw holder it got me thinking as I was also carrying that night and was really on edge about what to do during that moment regarding my gun. Since they made their intent very clear would I have been in the wrong lawfully if I had picked up my shirt revealing my gun to possibly deter them? What about a verbal warning that I have a gun? I clearly had no space to retreat being in the train car.
Now worst case scenario what if the gun brandishing didn't work and there was no MBTA worker, could I have drawn my gun and defended myself against them under MASS law if they indeed had rushed me? I know the self defense laws in MASS made by the liberals favor criminals instead of the defenders which is why I am not sure what the law would've allowed me to do and not do. I'm not going to take a chance against 5 guys and get head stomped, what if during the fight I didn't use my gun and one of them grabs ahold of it, my life hangs in their hands then.
So here I am clearly outnumbered and what looks like a situation where they are going to try to jump me as like I said they were closing the distance and try to rush me. To make the story short the situation got resolved when one of the MBTA workers who was in the same train car as us told the drunk idiots repeatedly to calm down or transit police will be alerted. Now being a ccw holder it got me thinking as I was also carrying that night and was really on edge about what to do during that moment regarding my gun. Since they made their intent very clear would I have been in the wrong lawfully if I had picked up my shirt revealing my gun to possibly deter them? What about a verbal warning that I have a gun? I clearly had no space to retreat being in the train car.
Now worst case scenario what if the gun brandishing didn't work and there was no MBTA worker, could I have drawn my gun and defended myself against them under MASS law if they indeed had rushed me? I know the self defense laws in MASS made by the liberals favor criminals instead of the defenders which is why I am not sure what the law would've allowed me to do and not do. I'm not going to take a chance against 5 guys and get head stomped, what if during the fight I didn't use my gun and one of them grabs ahold of it, my life hangs in their hands then.