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Good morning all, So I`ll give you a bit of background, I`m a 60yr old white male, former Marine and soon to retire from my contractor job in asscrapastan. I live in a nice apt building in Seattle, have lived here for the past 15 yrs, and have never had a issue with any of the tenets. On wed morn at around 11 am I was standing by the elevator to go down to get the mail( im old my back hurts and in a few weeks the VA will be replacing my knees). While im waiting a dog come teargassing at me, is barking jumping on me, not really super aggressive but still not in a friendly lets throw a ball around kind of way. I tell the dog to get the bubblegum down and make a motion with my hand to push him or her away, at the moment, some dude come up on me starts screaming vulgarities at me about leave my bubbleguming dog alone who the bubblegum are you to tell me about my dog, I calmly informed him that the lease states all dogs must be on a leash and have a muzzle on, i did not call him a bubblegum or bubblegum, i was trying to calm the whole thing down. He then walks right up to me(face to face close) starts screaming begging me to swing at him ( he is about 3 or4 inches taller and 50 pounds heaver then myself) also a lot younger i would say mid to late 30s or so.I put my left hand up and take a step back and told him to back off, he takes a step forward and again starts to scream at me, i take a step sideways trying to get out of there but he also steps sideways blocking my only way out. He then picks up his dog and starts to walk away, and i think its over, just another upset gay dude who hates everyone or everything. He take 5 or 6 steps puts the dog down and starting screaming something vile and he puts his hand up in a sort of semi mma boxing thing and proceeds to advance on me, at that point i take i step back put my left hand back up tell him to back off and put my hand on my EDC that i have in a OSWB holster, that is covered by my long shirt and my light rain jacket. However while i was trying to get at my pistol( FNS9C/17 ROUND MAG)(147 grain jacketed hollow point , spear gold dot +p ammo) my shirt got hung up on this little leaver safety catch that you need to release in order for the pistol to be able to be pulled from the holster( did that make sense). Just then the elevator door opened and the building manger stepped out asking what was going on i heard all this yelling, i said this guy is being super verbally abusive and aggressive towards me who is he does he live here, also almost at the same time i got my hand on the pistol grip and pressed the release lever on the holster. The screaming dude then stops and said do you have a gun are you pulling a gun on me oh my god help help call the police, he then runs away and leaves the elevator waiting area. I go down get my mail and after about 1 hour call the police to report a what the heck just happened. The police said sound like i did everything right and a few hours later they came out i gave a statement that's is it i guess. So after all that my question is this, I carry everywhere that is legal, but never with a round in the chamber, i guess because its Seattle etc etc etc, however if he had had a edged weapon or even if he had started punching me I would have had no time to pull my pistol chamber a round and acquire a good sight picture, before having my head kicked in. So any relevant help in carrying with a chambered round /when to draw your weapon would be a great help, im a pretty good shot we have to qual 4 times a year when we deploy to our jobs as well i love going to the range just to shoot....thanks cheers Robert