The Annoyed Man wrote:boba wrote:The terms "on or about" are usually said to mean close by, convenient, quickly and easily available, so a person could grab the weapon quickly without significantly changing their position.
And PC 1.07 (42) says
(42) "Reasonable belief" means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent man in the same circumstances as the actor.
So, what is an ordinary and prudent person who is either a CHL or an LEO supposed to think when he or she sees an unexpectedly armed man prowling the halls of a corporation with an openly carried gun
in his hand? I know what
my fears would be. I'm not saying I would have shot him, but I would
definitely have been taking
some kind of action, evasive or otherwise. I would suddenly have pressing business elsewhere. So would most
reasonable people.
It seems highly likely to me that an LEO would have drawn down on the guy and gotten control over the potential threat,
before make a determination of the guy's intentions. It would have been the
reasonable thing to do.
What that idiot did was just that: idiotic, and irresponsible; and within the context of PC 1.07 (42), it was
UNreasonable. In that particular environment, the gun
should have been cased. Arguments to the contrary reject objective reality and substitute their own.
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