I cannot speak to NC law (as some have tried using another State's law), however, in Alabama....
Then please stop speaking, because you are not adding anything meaningful or relevant to the discussion. You are just arguing for argument's sake, and diluting the meaningful content of this thread.
Please...
I hope you step it up instead of playing strawman and what-if games. You are better than that.
Actually, your constant referrals to AL law and how "if this happened in AL" is the biggest "strawman" of all. Your laws are different. They do not now, nor will the ever apply to this specific situation. State laws vary WIDELY on this issue, and believe me, NC laws are particularly byzantine and convoluted.
NC has VERY squirrelly self defense laws. We have odd "rules of engagement". We have a toothless "castle doctrine". We have NO "stand your ground" or "make my day" clause. We do not have civil immunity in a righteous shoot.
Believe me, I've studied NC law--up, down, sideways and backwards. We've got it better than MD (at least we are Shall Issue), but the Statutes and case law in NC are so full of "Jim Crow" that the bound volumes of the NCGC practically "caw" and sing "Mammy" when you pull them off the shelf at the library...
If you don't want to learn NC Statutes and Case Law, then I beg you--
i PLEAD with you--PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, just drop out of this thread. You are only arguing for argument's sake, and adding nothing but confusion and noise to the thread.
My main issue with the OP is that he THINKS he knows the law because he's ex-Army EOD and currently an armed security guard. He has never stated whether or not he has a NC CHP--I doubt he does because if he had paid attention in even the WORST CHP class, he would know that his actions were treading dangerously close to "GAttTotP", and perhaps even "assault".
He was not "in fear of an immanent deadly threat on his life". The BG was not armed. The BG was outnumbered 3-1. And he was NOT a party to the original confrontation, but rather INSERTED himself into an already volatile situation involving people and circumstances he did not fully understand. Under NC Statutes and Case Law, he would be seen as, at best, a cowboy who didn't understand the law, and at worst, a vigilante'...
I still don't understand why he didn't--at the very least--get disarmed, cuffed, and sat in a cruiser for a while by the responding officer...