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Purplehood wrote:

johnson0317 wrote: If we are not willing to pull our weapon, and use it, when the proper time comes, we need to just leave it at home.

I do not believe in the logical fallacy of the "if/then" argument. Nothing is ever cut and dry.

No, nothing is ever cut and dried. Even the most simple presentations, before the fact, will seem completely different if they actually come to pass. However, if the situation seems clear cut, it appears to have every hallmark of the appropriate time to pull your weapon, then you must be ready to do so.

RJ

Griz44 wrote:

A purse snatcher is not a justifiable reason for using deadly force and/or getting yourself hurt or shot...

Purse snatching off the person carrying it is robbery. Robbery is a felony. If it is forcefully taken, it may also be aggravated robbery. Robbery either way qualifies as a deadly force situation.

Yeah, I see your point. However, if the robbery is basically over, and no one is in danger of losing their life, do you really want to go ahead and change that balance by blowing the BG out of his shoes, just because you can?

I don't think the worst part of it would be pulling the trigger. I think the worst part would be the doubt, the anguish, the regret, the dreams that replay it time after time. Knowing that someones husband/father/son won't be home tonight because I had the authority of force, even though it may not have been needed.

Obviously every scenario will play out differently. If we are not willing to pull our weapon, and use it, when the proper time comes, we need to just leave it at home. I pray that each one of us has done the soul-searching that needs to be done ahead of time. Work through your "unlock" or "condition" codes as the process unwraps so that you can make the right decision in the split 1/100 of a second. It will be bad no matter what, but worse if we can not be sure we did the right thing.

Most of all, I pray we never have to go to the gravest extreme.

RJ