It's been a lot of years ago but I was involved in a third party intervention. I had a friend that was a Viet Nam vet that was given a general discharge because he got a little crazy, got his gun and wouldn't come out of the barracks when it was time to go huntin in the jungle. He said every day they'd go huntin. He must have pissed off some off the guys around him or they were afraid of him because he said he didn't know if he was going to get shot by the Viet Cong or shot in the back by some of his companions.
When he came home we did some partying together and he worked part of the time as a bouncer in bars. He was a big guy, a little crazy when some one pissed him off but otherwise a pretty nice guy. He'd had some bad experiences in Viet Nam and you didn't want to be around him if he went to sleep and then woke up because when he'd wake up he'd think he was still in Viet Nam and you might get the hell beat out of you before he'd realize he wasn't there any more. That might have been why he got to thinking some of the guys around him might want to shoot him in the back in Viet Nam when they'd go huntin.
I was at a bar one night where he was the bouncer and two guys went out in the parking lot and started fighting. One got the best of the other and was really beating the hell out or the other guy. These aren't like school yard fights where the fight stops when some one hollers they've had enough. The guy on the bottom looked like he had blood coming out of his ears and and was screaming for help when the guy on top who had him by the hair and was bashing his head on the ground. There were about fifteen members of a motor cycle gang in a circle around the two fighting and they weren't going to let anyone interfere.
My friend had tangled with some of the members of the gang and had whipped about five of them who'd come after him so they had a lot of respect for him. He walked through the circle and got the fight stopped and they didn't do anything. If they'd have attacked him I'd have had to help him and we'd have gotten the hell beat out of us just like the guy on the ground screaming for help. When he was walking into stop the fight I was wishing I'd had my 30-30 Winchester in the trunk of my car because I'd have gone and got it. That's one of the experiences I've had that is the reason I carry all the time. I don't go looking for trouble and try to avoid places you may run in to it but I always try to be prepared where ever I am.

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