8 thugs vs. a guy, his wife and his gun...gun owner arrested for warning shot...

[QuickHitCurepon]

"Why brandishing, shooting to wound, and warning shots are BAD ideas

For every bit of good advice out there about self defense, there are at least 10 pieces of bad advice.

Some of the very worst advice is about how to avoid the legal fallout of self defense by using a firearm in a non-lethal way, such as brandishing, shooting to wound rather than to kill, and firing one or more warning shots to scare off an attacker.

Usually when someone has a gun pointed at them, they take it seriously, but the gang threatening him did not which makes this a different situation. If you are going to make those arguments, make them more specific.

 

[BullKurtz]

Do not ever shoot into the air. Ever. The bullets come down. That's when a warning shot becomes a kill shot.

Common MYTH....a vertically falling bullet would have to hit you in the eye to harm you....not enough velocity to penetrate muscle or bone.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Well, they may not have had weapons visible when they were menacing this couple...which might confuse the situation...but...according to self defense law...9 vs. 2 is a disparity of force and if there was a belief that great bodily harm or death were about to happen...you could justify the shooting...but it would be touchy....if an actual physical attack hadn't started...

In the video I posted (@ :10) it said, "At least one was armed."

An amazing thing in the video was how Roxby said the police interviewed one of the gang and took statements but did not arrest them for their part.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Do not ever shoot into the air. Ever. The bullets come down. That's when a warning shot becomes a kill shot.

Common MYTH....a vertically falling bullet would have to hit you in the eye to harm you....not enough velocity to penetrate muscle or bone.

"June 14, 1999: Arizona, A fourteen year-old girl, Shannon Smith, was struck on the top of her head by a bullet and killed while in the backyard of her home.[28] This incident resulted in Arizona enacting "Shannon's Law" in 2000, that made the discharge of a firearm into the air illegal[29]"

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