ProShooter
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Woman stabbed to death in a Fairfax bar and grill - http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=13283281
Woman stabbed to death in a Fairfax bar and grill - http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=13283281
Now. YOU are present in that bar when the man draws his knife and attacks the woman. You are armed, OC or CC. Do you take action to prevent the killing?
Depends on too many circumstances to give a text book answer....
Knife needn't even be bloody.However, if he took one step toward ME with his bloody knife, and made eye contact, I firmly believe THAT would be a justifiable SD situation...
Depends on too many circumstances to give a text book answer....
You don't have too long to figure out what you're going to do though....Split-second decision.
The right to use deadly force to protect others being attacked with the use of deadly force is clearly established. The only thought going through my mind would be, what's beyond the attacker...if I miss, is there a possiblilty of hitting someone at a booth or table...or through a window sitting in a car at a stop light, or someone else rushing to help the person, etc? If the answer to any of those questions is "yes," then it would be, can I move myself into a postition to eliminate that risk? If I am in, or can get myself in, a position where there is no risk of hitting an innocent bystander...it would suck to be the attacker.
Well, in this situation I wouldn't be the "victim," I'd be a good samaritan coming to the aid of another. Whether I could or couldn't be held legally responsible for any "incidental damage" I don't think would give much solace to the family of the victim of such incidental damage...and a responsibility I would only accept in the most dire of circumstances, like the Luby's massacre in Killeen, TX, or the MacDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, CA.
I also know I'm a pretty damned good shot so it would take extraordinary circumstances for me not to make the shot...but, I also know I have no control over what others do when pandemonium breaks out.
At the very least I would arm myself with a chair and hopefully be in a position to leave a size 10 motorcycle boot imprint on the attacker's forehead, if I were coming to the aid of another.
We Southron are intimately familiar with this quandary.As for hitting an innocent person, I imagine that would be one of the most sinking feelings a reasonable person could experience