I can only go by what you say. I can't tell you how you feel/felt. Just based on what you said, it sounded bizarre. I have been jumped and I have been mugged. I know what it is to have a stranger put a gun in my face. If you felt pulling a gun was justified, there is no way I can determine whether it was. You put it out there that you pulled a gun on a guy for asking for a quarter and I commented. Preaching is a stretch since most of my initial statements were questions to see if there was more to the story. You have no idea what my prejudices are just like I cannot assume that your pulling a gun was based on prejudice. The guy may have wanted to mug you or he may have just wanted a quarter. You still have not said anything different except you are implying that you have some psychic ability to know what the guy was thinking. Of course they ran when you pulled out a gun. If some hostile old guy pulled a gun out for no reason, most sane people would run regardless of their intentions.