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Dustiniac wrote:
But you will still be alive.
Yes but what if some little kid gets killed because you shot the driver and caused him to swerve off the road and into someones yard or up onto the side walk?
I would rather take the chances of surviving it myself. Just because I carry a gun doesn't give me the right to put my life before some innocent bystanders.
It also doesn't mean that my gun is the answer to every problem or situation I find myself in. You could actually jump up onto the car and you would more than likely not be killed. If you are in a dead end like you discribed earlier that would probably be the best answer. As Nutz said earlier shooting the driver doesn't mean you will stop the car.
Your better off letting the driver smash the car and not be able to leave the scene.
Besides, how do you know there isn't a small child in the back seat of the car that could be killed by your shot?
I think it was BNH who said, your firearm should always be your absolute last resort and only then in the defense of your life or the life of another. That pretty mush sums it up.
Now if you are in some dead end alley that is lined with brick walls and there is barely enough room for a car to get through and it is coming at you full speed,
maybe try jumping up on the car and let him hit the wall if that doesn't stop them you can always re-evaluate and decide if shooting down through the windshield would do the trick. At that point I would think you would have all the evdience you need to prove that the driver was trying to kill you. Otherwise, how do you know he just didn't fall asleep or have a heart attack or what ever else could possibly be the answer? How would you feel about shooting the driver then? What if the driver was a kid that somehow got the car started and had know clue how to drive?