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Originally Posted by BGCarrera32
Generally speaking it would be unlikely that you would have been justified unless you were pinned in an area of the store where you or others in immediate danger could not get past the guy and get out of harms way. In most circumstances you need to be an unwilling participant; hence if the guy was futzing with it while his back was turned to you and you had every opportunity to retreat- you would likely be in hot water if you opted to hold him at gunpoint.
That said had you done so it would also be unlikely you would have been hit with an assault charge for drawing on the guy, given what he was doing.
Now if he had pointed it at someone, that may be different...
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WRONG! you CAN USE DEADLY FORCE TO STOP AN ARMED ROBBERY! and what would all of us thought he was going to do? even despite the fact hes a blithering MORON with a DARWIN DEATH WISH!
you pull a gun out.................................something bad is gonna happen FAST!
just today i handed over to my 21 year old son whose going to NAU my HK9mm compact UBERIZED ROBAR'D pistole. why? because upon my orders he would get the gun if he went thru the azccw course. he also had to score 100 on the writtian and 100 on the practical shooting.................WHICH HE DID! and being the proud father that i am, i gave him one of my fave 9mm's with the entire dad speech in depth/in triplicate/8x10 glossys w/pics and arrows describing what the hell this is ALL ABOUT!
now my sons have both grown up with guns since they were out of diapers. i have no concerns of him ever pulling a stoopid stunt like this guy. and i explained to him fully and IN DEPTH, that the level of responsibility is equal to a cops responsibility. and if he screws up in any way they(courts) will drag his balls thru broken glass and razor blades before the fat lady sings.
rule numero UNO: DONT PLAY WITH GUNS
rule dos: see rule numero UNO!