an absolutely true story. It is extremely rare for me to carry a firearm normally only camping in the woods. Once I was working at a hospital in a city. It was in a bad area and had a drug rehab clinic. I was working on their computer network and when I finished two of the nurses asked if I would walk them to their car so they didn't have to wait for security.   I was packing concealed (I am licensed) .. when I got to the car they were a bit ahead of me. Suddenly out of some bushes (stupid have bushes in a bad area by the way) a very large hooded man came out at one of the young nurses, he had a hunting knife. I yelled and in a blink of an eye I had drawn my colt .45 and had him right in my site. He heard me yell saw the hand cannon and took off running. No one hurt.   The police came took the report checked my carry license and then told us this is a bad area and we should not be out late at night. how stupid when a person has to work huh ... anyway, I was very thankful I was carrying at that time. Now I ask myself would I have used it ... Thankfully I did not have to ... but yes I would have had he been two steps closer to her.