I remember when you originally brought that incident up...dac1842 wrote:First, the original poster did not violate any laws. There is not an LEO in the county that would have arrested him on that issue.
This reminds me of an incident I was involved in many years ago. At the time I was an LEO. I was off duty with my first wife, her family had come in town to see our newborn son (now 22) and we had gone out to the Spaghetti Warehouse downtown to eat. As we exited a homeless person approached and asked for money, I told him I was sorry but we really could not help him. Well he persisted and after 4 or 5 exchanges I finally told him to back off, leave us alone. Well he was across the car from me standing within a few feet of my sister in law who was holding my son. From where I was it appeared he was reaching for my son, I quickly drew down on him and told him there was nothing here worth dying for, but everything here was worth killing him for. He decided he had lost his appetite and went away.
The only thing I can say about all of this regarding aggressive people like this, is that it is not our duty to determine anything about their "story" or condition in life...If they are presenting a situation that makes you feel uncomfortable, then yes, you do have some liberty to address that person effectively enough without levying a threat of deadly force to get them to stop...
It takes an awful lot of skill and patience to deal with people like this, and I might very well have a problem in keeping the situation civil...But is it our duty to keep it civil??? I could go either way on that...
But I can guarantee you this...We all have the ability to deal with a situation like this very decisively...
How you do it where everyone walks away breathing is the real test of your own character...