Richard Rawlings Was Shot During a Carjacking

The problem is those preppers, they're just a little too paranoid and they fuck it up for everybody else. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's why you can't buy bullets right now. You can't buy bullets right now. People need to know this. People out there that don't own guns, first of all gun ownership radically increased in 2020. Correct. And gun purchases went up and then bullet purchases went up. And they're hoarding them all. I mean, they can't even make them fast enough. I mean, you're talking to a guy who got shot in 1992. How'd you shot? Fucking carjacking. Yeah. I was a police officer. Where'd you get shot? Show me your arm. Came in back here on my shoulder and came out down here. You were a police officer back then? Dude, I was a police officer, firefighter and paramedic before I was old enough to drink. That's crazy. A little bit of an overachiever. Wow. That's crazy. How did you get involved in that? How old were you when you joined the force? I went into the police academy in 18. You could be a cop at 18. I got my certification when I was 19. That is crazy. When were you on the force pulling people over? Late 19. That is so crazy. Yeah. I spent some time in a little suburb of Dallas called Alvarado, and then I ended up at the Tarrant County Constable's office. And then I ended up getting hired on by a city up there in Coppell. They put me through the fire academy and medical school. So that's what I did until I was like 27-ish, 26. So how old were you when you got shot? 92, so I guess I was 22. So you were 22 and you were stopping a carjacking? No. I actually had been out that night with a buddy of mine, and he got lucky, went home with some chick. So I did not. I was going through the Waterberg drive-thru, and a couple of guys came up and got me from behind. Wow. What kind of car? 65 Mustang Fastback. Gold on gold. It was a nice car. Nice car. So you had good taste even back then. Yeah, I was always flipping and buying cars all through school. As a matter of fact, I graduated high school. I started my driver's license when I was 16 with a $250 76 Impala and finished high school two and a half years later, two years later with a Bandit Trans Am, four speed, tea topped, red on black with the big gold bird. It was a real good experience.