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rotor wrote:The article said (suggested) that the person carried 3-5 pound rocks up to the bridge and was dropping them on passing cars. After drawing your weapon if the person didn't stop what would you do? The tough question. Now pretend your wife is driving and coming up to that bridge.

Interesting thought experiment. If you drew your gun, yelled at the assailant to stop and he turned to the traffic below him with a rock, what to do?

I believe "shoot to stop the threat" is the correct answer, but it's not what I would want to do. It's tempting to think about directing a shot into his legs, but that's wrong. Stop him without killing is a fine idea, but a warning shot might not stop him from launching his rock. That's not shooting to stop a threat. That's shooting to deliver a message. Bad notion.

When in mortal jeopardy, shoot to stop a threat, call for medical and police assistance, pray for peace.

Seems like a huge case of "it depends." A lad throwing rocks that can verbally stopped, no justification. An assailant determined to injure or kill, sure, but not as a first option.

For a kid, "Hey, stop that!"

And call the police.

For an adult, maybe draw your weapon before demanding he stop. Or she, didn't mean to be exclusionary.

You have to think on your feet.