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Monday morning quarterbacking is so much fun. We are always right! First, you did the right thing by ignorning the kids and kept driving. Would you have been justified in drawing, in your case chambering, and firing? Please see the article in today's (7/5) Houston Chronicle about kids weaving in and out of traffic and throwing a brick through the windshield and smashing the drivers face.

Now for the way you carry, or I hope by the time you read this carried. If you are not comfortable enough to carry loaded then you should not carry at all. This indicates you have not taken the time to become completely familar with the tool you expect to save your life. Before you carry you should practice with the weapon not only on the firing range but in the privacy of your home. How can you expect for your closest friend to save your life if you don't trust it?

When you draw your weapon instead of being concerned about the trigger, practice pulling using the indexing method, this is putting your finger ( or booger hook LOL) outside of the trigger guard and along the slide. It is much quicker to place the finger on the trigger when you identify the threat than it is to draw and try to chamber one that requires the use of both hands, kind of trickey if you do this while driving.

You did fine in the handling of your situation. Sometimes ignorning the potential threat will make it go away. However, had they stayed with you a call to 911 would have been in order. I think a lesson we all take away from the Joe Horn case is do not state your intentions. Call 911, identify the problem, allow the police to respond. I personally believe that Joe Horn would not have had suffered near as much grief if he had just called 911 and reported a burglary in progress, and then gone outside and fixed stupid x2.