““This last statement should have sent alarm bells going off in my head, but I was in hock to the guy for a thousand bucks, and he’d been making his living at this for a long time, so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he did have a license to carry one of these things. God, I was naïve back then. We then discussed the finer points of pistol whipping an individual; make sure they’re unarmed and keep your finger off the trigger when smacking a guy.””