"I went to the movies with my pistol in my pocket the whole time I was praying that somebody would try to pull a Batman!"

Had he said "...with a pistol in my pocket, for fear that someone would ...", I might have just waivered in my feeling about his best judgement. But the "..praying that someone would..." is another entire step in attitude. If he "got one", would he have mounted the head on his wall as a trophy?