Beiruty wrote:Those questions should have been asked or dissucssed in your CHL class.g31357 wrote:Hi everyone I am new to this forum and just took my CHL class yesterday (owned firarms for about 3 years though)
Didn't want to create a new thread but am very interested on what situations you should consider shooting. For example, you see a thug walking towards you (you don't know for sure he is up to know good, he is just walking your way), well if you pull out your gun you should be willing to use it then and there otherwise if you don't you allow the thug to have the opportunity to take you out with his gun, but then again the thug is still a few feet away from you so you don't know what he's up to yet. So what do you do? You pull out and unload at the guy just because he was walking towards you?? Turns out he was just walking your direction with no intent to harm you and just happened to look mischievous because of the way he's dressed. I don't know what to do in this situation.
In short, NO. You just saw someone walking your way. Keep distance and go the other way.
You can deploy (draw) your weapon when threaten by a deadly force (weapon) that can inflict death or grave bodily harm. There are many cases that are clearly stated in the law. such as robbery, kidnapping, burglary, etc.. where deadly response is justified.
Well, in the CHL class we discussed this and there was no right or wrong answer. Basically the example the instructor used was this, he asked for a volunteer, then the instructor pretended he was a guy in the middle of the night standing outside your door..what do you do? The volunteer first said, he would open the door and ask "what are you doing here?" Before the volunteer could finish his sentence, the instructor pulls out his gun (fake gun for class) and goes "BAM!!" real loud. His message to us was "ACTION beats Re-Action"
He then says, let's try that scenario again. This time as soon as the door is open, the volunteer draws his gun out and shoots as soon as the door is open. Now the instructor tells us, well what if i'm not armed? I'm just some guy that works for the city checking some utility boxes in his backyard, or he is some mentally handicapped person, you just shot someone that wasn't armed, now your in deep doodoo. So anyways, no right or wrong was discussed, just wanted us to have something to think about. So that leaves me with questions still as to what you should do. Now obviously in the scenario, i wouldn't even have opened the door in the middle of the night to begin with, BUT the same type of choice can be applied to some thug walking towards you while your pumping gas. You don't know he is going to harm you, but if you dont act fast, he can get you in a bad situation.