Drewthetexan wrote:GrandSporTA wrote:I thought when I took my class that if you pull your gun, you might as well shoot, because its a pretty big crime to just pull your gun on someone, even with a CHL. Am I wrong?
If you are justified in shooting, you are justified in drawing. But justification in drawing does not mean you are justified in shooting. There are some threads around on force vs. deadly force.
Pulling a gun on anyone without justification is a serious crime. My thinking is, you'll know it when you need it - otherwise, leave it alone.
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- Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:40 am
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- Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:59 pm
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Yeah, go figure.USA1 wrote:it is so true .joe817 wrote:Who was it that said?....Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps?....."that it is a shame to waste youth on youth". Now how true is that?
to bad we don't see that when we're youthful
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:55 pm
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Who was it that said?....Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps?....."that it is a shame to waste youth on youth". Now how true is that?
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:22 pm
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Years ago when I was collecting military shotguns, my next door neighbor and very good friend hosted a get together for our little neighborhood group of friends. 5 families on our street became very close friends. Children and all attended.
My family & I were the first to leave, about 10pm. An hour later my next door neighbor(Pat) and the guy who lived on the other side of him(Bob) knocked on the door with worried looks on their faces. They told me Bob heard a noise in the back bedroom when Bob came home for a few minutes, and could I get one of my guns and go with them. I told wife to call the police, I'm going over to Bob's house. At the time I was a big time U.S. military marked riot and trench gun collector. I grabbed my fav h.d. shotgun(Rem. M.11 riot) and we 3 went to Bob's house clearing one room after another. We had just cleared the last room closet when police arrived. There were 3 LEO's in the house and briefly interviewed us. As I was the only one who had a gun, I was escorted out of the house and asked to go home, which I promptly did. No intruder was found.
My family & I were the first to leave, about 10pm. An hour later my next door neighbor(Pat) and the guy who lived on the other side of him(Bob) knocked on the door with worried looks on their faces. They told me Bob heard a noise in the back bedroom when Bob came home for a few minutes, and could I get one of my guns and go with them. I told wife to call the police, I'm going over to Bob's house. At the time I was a big time U.S. military marked riot and trench gun collector. I grabbed my fav h.d. shotgun(Rem. M.11 riot) and we 3 went to Bob's house clearing one room after another. We had just cleared the last room closet when police arrived. There were 3 LEO's in the house and briefly interviewed us. As I was the only one who had a gun, I was escorted out of the house and asked to go home, which I promptly did. No intruder was found.