On more than one occasion before I put on the badge, I found myself in a position where I needed to pull, point and was ready to shoot.
At the time a lot of these incidents were location dependent, none of us could afford to live in the “nice areas”, and our travels took us through the bad areas.
The legality of when and where I was carrying we won’t discuss, but had I not been carrying I would have certainly suffered some injustices.