[xoxoxoBruce]

From Hippikos link;

More than a decade ago, on a hot summer night, Greene was returning to his car after a night of partying at a Center City leather bar. Sporting a black leather vest, white T-shirt, jeans and leather boots, he headed east from 13th Street toward his car, which was parked in Queen Village.
A few blocks into his journey, four young adults began following him.
"Hey faggot!" Greene says the teens yelled.
Greene picked up the pace. He turned around at one point and saw that each of the thugs was waving a metal pipe as they continued barking at him.
When Greene, who says he hadn't been drinking, finally arrived at his car, he reached into his pocket, pulled out his five-shot Smith & Wesson revolver, and aimed it at the hooligans.
"Holy shit! He's got a gun!" Greene says the one of the teens yelled.
Then they ran off.
"This was a successful self-defense with a gun," Greene says.
Without a weapon, he says, the kids would've ganged up on him, and the cops wouldn't have been able to do anything.
"The police would've shown up in time to clean me up off the street," he says with an uncomfortable chortle.

See, that's the problem with guns. Those four lads were probably traumatized for days. I wouldn't be surprised if it took them several muggings to regain their self esteem, poor boys.