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dihappy wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

E10 wrote: Often, in these situations, just the display of a firearm, without open threat or pointing at anyone, is enough to end the encounter.

Were on earth did that statistic come from?

Its a normal assumption that not too many people come at you when you have a gun in your hand.

I didn't say it wasn't true, I wanted to know the source of the statistics. The internet abounds with jail house lawyers and experts in every aspect of everything...LOL. I just wanted the source for the stated data. I have heard that producing a weapon can escalate an encounter, so I really hadn't considered how many criminals take off running when seeing the weapon.

One item of interest to consider before waving your gun around in a threatening manner would be the very real possibility of being charged with aggravated assault. Now before all the legal "experts" around here climb all up in my tree, I didn't say it was probability...I said possibility. I know this from personal experience...like they say...sometimes you can beat the wrap but you can't beat the ride.

Fangs wrote:Doesn't the NRA claim that something like 85% of the time just displaying a gun stops the crime? Sorry for not citing an exact article, but I've heard something to this effect quite a few times as well.

Interesting...I don't think I would count on that working. I was involved in a situation were I was asked by the police if I showed them my gun as a warning...LOL. I said no....apparently I gave the right answer. Something about aggravated assault. Sure as tootin somebody will tell the cops a nut job was waving his gun around in a threatening manner and you will end up getting arrested with the bad guys.

E10 wrote: Often, in these situations, just the display of a firearm, without open threat or pointing at anyone, is enough to end the encounter.

Were on earth did that statistic come from?

Purplehood wrote:

t_kopecky wrote:Hello all. This is my first post on the forum, and I felt compelled to comment on this issue.

I like the comments above, and wanted to offer a small piece of advice...be careful. I stopped my neighbor from beating his wife by standing on my side of our property line with my pistol behind my back. Had already called the police, and when they showed up, she turned on me and claimed I threatened to kill everyone. I was arrested for Deadly Conduct.

I won't get in the middle of a fight between others, but I will call the police and let them break it up. I enjoy the site...

Another reason I love this board...who'd a thought?

From all the stories I read and hear, domestic violence situations often end up like this.

PArrow wrote:Call 911, take pictures of everyone I could, shoot anyone who approched me, reload if needed.

LOL...this gave me quite the visual. Reminds me of the Old Yosemite Sam cartoon character.

Rex B wrote:I'd have to say I'd be calling 911 and then taking photos with camera or phone from a safe distance.
If that prompted them to turn toward me and I could not evade the 4 to 1 odds would warrant a defense.

LOL....I would not have thought about taking photos. Great idea....that would have been some great y-tube footage. Better than the old sight...bums fighting.com.


I agree with those that say it is hard to know which side to get on. I watched a couple ghetto houchie mamas beating the dickens out of each other in front of wal-greens one afternoon. These two women were each big enough to whoop most guys. The funny part was that these ladies kids were watching the spectacle and screaming at them to hit each other. i didn't even call the cops. I just laughed and drove off. I figured it was Darwinism at work. I considered arming them both with sticks.

On the other end of the spectrum I was in downtown Dallas around Deep Ellum a few years back and saw a grizzly looking biker dude slamming a woman against a metal garage door(big commercial one). She kept hollering at him to leave her alone and he kept cursing her and calling her names. My buddy said, "we have to do something". I looked down the road about 100 yards and saw a cop so I told him we should go get the cop and let him deal with it. The cop runs down there and half a dozen other cops descend on this guy. His girlfriend ends up getting arrested for assaulting the police officers and he drives off to find bail money. She turned on the cops when they tried to help her. Started defending her boyfriend from them. You never know who or what is going to happen when you get involved in someone elses fight. It's risky to intervene. Unless someone is about to die or a woman is getting raped or something that severe, I don't think I would do much other than call a cop.