Did you ever face a rifle head on?

Ha ha...a blonde will always be a blonde...I saw a rifle in my office. Some politician used to come to buy properties and his gunmen would come and sit outside the boss' room. Naturally I have seen AK 47. At least that is what the gunmen said they were.

They were probably there for your protection. The only time I've seen real weapons was in Egypt. We got off our ship in Alexandria to make the 100 mile trip to the pyramids and were confronted by armed guards in two jeeps. They accompanied our tour bus, one jeep in front and one behind. It was a bit daunting to think that was necessary.

When I was a teenager and lived in Italy, from 1968 to 1971, we had many students and workers protests. I often faced soldiers with weapons who prevented people to enter certain protected areas. Let's say I got the habit.

When I was about 14 or so, my dad, uncle and I were out hunting. As the day approached lunchtime without any deer sightings, we decided to head back to camp and relax for the afternoon before heading back out into the woods in the later afternoon. As we were walking single-file down a wooded path headed back to the truck, a magnificent buck darted through the woods and out into the path, right between my uncle and me. Because his rifle was slung on his back, he grabbed his pistol out of his holster and turned and started firing away at the deer, with me right in the line of fire about 10 yards behind the deer. I could hear bullets whizzing by my head, and thankfully I was smart enough to drop to the ground for cover. It was sad that my uncle lost all rational thought when he saw that buck jump between us, but luckily he was a bad shot! He never hit the deer once in all those shots he fired, and it was only mere yards away from him!

@ramapo17 - When we were traveling in Jamaica many years ago, there was a revolution going on and there were soldiers with rifles and dogs everywhere. We had taken our young children on this trip with us, and it was pretty terrifying. Some people were killed by revolutionaries at our resort while we were there. We never went back.

I'm sure you were scared. I would have needed to change my underwear.

i'm never at ease around it. i also wouldn't explore alone.

What a great job you had.. going places must be so exciting.... that would be scary experience to see people carrying rifles .. but maybe they were there to make sure that the people on the cruise ship would feel safer when they get off the ship to look around..

I have an armalite rifle at my friend's house. Her dad was sleeping on a bench in a living room, on his stomach lies an armalite rifle. I thought "that's the most stupid thing to do" but of course I did not say that to my friend.

Yep and even got shot at a couple times, once was a rifle. LOL No, I am not a criminal and I didn't do anything technically wrong. Not my fault the guy turned a long-time public thruway into a private driveway. How was I supposed to know that my favorite short-cut had been countermanded? Geesh, middle of the night, raining. I just wanted to get where I was going. But we aren't going to discuss the throw-down with handguns and I still maintain my innocence.

Oh it would really have been scary.

We had once parked our car somewhere isolated. I saw a pistol instead directed at us and I have never been so afraid

Oh. That will make me scared too. I have never experienced facing a rifle on my head but I am hoping too. I am glad nothing bad happened there, Nancy.

Ohh I never experienced it..