An upsetting encounter

This evening, I attended the beer call for the National Guard tonight in downtown Alexandria. And I had a rather disconcerting encounter with someone I met. 

For all that I consider myself an evolved woman, not in need of rescue - god, I wish someone had pulled me out of that one.  I actually feel a bit fearful and hope that was the last I'll see of him. I can't seem to shake some ominous feeling about the entire encounter.

The fellow was an Air National Guard COL. Early fifties. He pushed his way to meet me, said I was familiar to him, wanted to know where we'd met, and drew me into a conversation that I couldn't get out of easily. He seemed to need to control the conversation and since I was at the event to network and since this is not unusual behavior for military men I let him "be in charge".

I tried to nicely answer his increasingly prying questions about my reasons for conducting operations research, etc. and asked him nice questions in return. Then, suddenly, he dragged me down the path of political leanings.  I said that I was of a liberal persuasion both socially and fiscally, and then he told me that if he had been born after 1970 (Roe v. Wade) he would have been successfully aborted. He showed me a scar on his lip and told me it was from a failed abortion attempt - that his mother had tried to abort him when she was eight months pregnant with him (I can't imagine that this is true...certainly a late term abortion attempt would have caused far more damage than a lip-scar. Most "failed abortions" are in the early stages of pregnancy when the doctor can't properly identify the location of the fetus and fails to remove all the tissue). He seemed to exude a tremendous amount of hatred for his mother (does this necessarily imply hatred for all women?). He said that all abortions were conducted because the pregnancy was "inconvenient". I mentioned that, while I would not personally have an abortion, that there were likely more reasons for this (health concerns, mental illness, etc), and that it was a much more nuanced situation. 

At this, he wanted me to "look me in the eye" and tell him that I thought that a woman's right to choose was more important than his life. I told him it was a false choice, but that I felt it was always a bad principle wrong for the state to legislate women's reproduction. He became very agitated and told me that he would "always know this" about me.  He told me that if I believed that, then I should also believe that he had the right to murder me. 

I told him that he was making me feel uncomfortable and I left.

I can't shake the sense that there is something seriously wrong with this person and that I may have accidentally put myself in his field of targets. There seems to be a lot of anger there. 

Well, for the record, Eve and I were sufficiently freaked out by this that we've closed the blinds this evening. That's FPCON Charlie for us.