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steveincowtown wrote:

TreyHouston wrote:OK, so I decided to start a new thread about this. Please feel free to carry on the conversation after the question and answered. So my wife and I were talking about the clown assault in Texas. This is where the clown was chasing two kids with a baseball bat down the street. If you witness this what would you do?

I made the comment to my wife that I would pull my car in front of the kids and stop so I was cutting the clown off from the kids. I would then draw my gun and scream for him to STOP!!!! and if he didn't stop, I would shoot the clown in the leg if he still continued I would shoot him center mass. If he was caring a knife , Then I would shoot center mass, same for any kind of knife, chainsaw, sledgehammer or any other life-threatening weapon.

Is it ever justifiable to shoot someone in the leg to stop the threat? Does shooting someone in the leg put you in more path for civil liability then shooting to kill? Am I weird for thinking that a baseball bat is less life-threatening than a knife? Or machete?

Be a good witness, and only intervene if deadly force is justified. CHL does not equal LEO.