"Damn, I wish he didn't have a gun."

[Dustlawyer]

21. I have had guns put to my head twice, and a knife at my throat.

One of the gun to the head involved the knife to the throat, sorta of overkill (pun intended). I had been explaining to an East Texas red neck the arbitration clause in a contract to hire our firm. We were in his living room at night in the middle of the woods. He quickly reached under the couch and had a big gun (they all seem big when put to your temple) to my head and a big Bowie knife at my throat so hard he cut me across my Adam's apple. He said he could not read so if he had any problem with us he would come to the office and kill me. I calmly told him that if someone screwed up so bad he felt the need to kill me, he should at least kill the S.O.B. who screwed up, and not me! He put them away and signed.
The other time was at a party when I was in college. The owner of the house was someone I did not know. Turns out he was a coke dealer who had sampled way too much of his wares. He asked me to do a hit of coke, and when I declined he put a really big gun to my temple and said I had to do some to prove that I wasn't a narc. I declined to inform him that doing coke at gunpoint proved nothing but that I didn't want to do it. Both of these guys would have seriously done it! Since then I am very wary of gun nuts!