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August 11, 2013, 12:29 PM | #51 |
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If someone is robbing you and has a gun in his belt - you cannot use your firearm?
Well, please quote the appropriate laws to support than opinion. I doubt that view will be supported.
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Sure you can use your firearm! But you better find a really good lawyer who can prove that a holstered(or in the belt) firearm was an imminient threat.
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August 11, 2013, 01:32 PM | #53 |
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Didn't answer the question I posed. Also, the guy is robbing you in this discussion. I suggest that if a person approaches you and says Give Me Your Dough and exposes a holstered weapon - your opinion that he has to draw it and aim it is incorrect.
Please provide statutes that support your view.
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At what point do you draw?
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If he then motions to his firearm or does anything threatening whatsoever then I am perfectly justified in shooting. It seems as if you are not understanding what exactly constitutes an 'imminent threat'. Nor the fact that robbery (be it armed or not) can legally be met with lethal force (or the threat of it) most anywhere in the US. If someone comes up to me and demands my money, then I do not have to wait to determine if he is armed or not to react with the force required to keep my money and stay alive. Last edited by allaroundhunter; August 11, 2013 at 02:12 PM. |
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August 11, 2013, 02:09 PM | #55 |
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Unless one can refute Allaround's analysis with legal references - I suggest that other opinions aren't useful. He nailed it.
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August 11, 2013, 03:15 PM | #56 |
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One of the main things I am reminded of by this conversation is that responsibly carrying a weapon requires training, awareness, and maturity. The decision to draw or shoot (two very different things) often has to be made very quickly with little time to deliberate. Avoiding confrontations, or keeping one's head when that doesn't work is easier done here on the interweb than in reality. Walking, running, or driving away from a potentially deadly situation, or drawing a weapon to stop an attack without having to fire it are good outcomes. These choices often require speed, self discipline, and control with lives hanging in the balance.
One-answer-fits-all solutions to self defense scenarios are as useful as those same solutions in automobiles or health care.
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August 11, 2013, 03:30 PM | #57 | |
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If a civilian takes a gun out and points it at someone.......who is about to cause them death or grave bodily injury.......he or she is guilty of nothing. It is still legal in most of the U.S. to defend yourself from violent attack. Now if a civilian pulls and points a gun for no legal reason, then they are guilty of aggrivated assault with a firearm punishable in Florida by a minimum mandatory 3 years in prison. Food for thought on your robber with a gun in his waistband. If you are of the mindset that you are only in imminent danger when the gun is being raised then perhaps it is you who should take a class....a defensive firearms training class. Study the Tueller Drill for your knife scenario. Understand that a human being can talk, fight, and run for up to 20 seconds with a completely destroyed heart. Then think about how long it takes a knife weilding attacker to cover 21ft or for a man to draw a pistol from his waist band. Now its time to rethink your response to either threat before you or even worst, your family, are victimized by false information. |
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August 11, 2013, 04:07 PM | #58 |
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If someone says "give me your wallet" and you see a gun in their waistband, a reasonable and prudent person should conclude that the firearm is the tool they plan to use to gain compliance should you choose not to hand over your wallet; or, as in some cases, you do comply and get shot regardless.
To display a firearm during the commission of a robbery is the same as holding the gun to someone's head. The use of deadly force is being implied by the criminal and therefore deadly force is authorized to resist the assault. To believe otherwise is foolish. Rather than going for your own gun, you would be better off going for their gun... unless they were at a distance to where you could run in the opposite direction and hope they don't shoot you in the back... or you believe you can outdraw them.
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August 11, 2013, 04:11 PM | #59 | |
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Once a man has made known his intent to cause death or grave bodily injury then he only needs the ability and opportunity to cause said injury. Example if Mike Tyson says he will beat you to death if you don't give up your jewelry, you are perfectly justified in preparing your defense to this IMMINENT threat BEFORE Tyson gets close enough to carry out that threat. You will of course need to wait until he attempts to get within striking distance, which is his ability to cause DOGBI, before discharging your firearm. You don't have to wait for him to start beating you before offering up your defense. Imminent is defined by Marriam Websters as ready to take place; especially: hanging threateningly over one's head. A robber with a gun in his waistband is certainly imminent by definition, completely an imminent threat by every known source of information available, and extremely imminent by any trained firearms training expert. |
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August 11, 2013, 04:14 PM | #60 |
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At what point do you draw?
Daddyo, in your example Mike Tyson simply closing the distance between you and him after you ordering him to stay back can be seen as threatening. He doesn't have to be within striking distance or it to be imminent.
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August 11, 2013, 05:33 PM | #61 | |
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I agree. I think you misread my post.....
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August 11, 2013, 05:40 PM | #62 |
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At what point do you draw?
Fair enough, it would appear that I did just that... My bad
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August 11, 2013, 05:48 PM | #63 |
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You did just fine because the result was positive and nobody left with bad feelings. This is a good rule of thumb for defensive success. You could have noticed him earlier, but it is impossible to maintain awareness at all times when out and about.
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About 30 years ago, I was sitting in my truck in a food store parking lot waiting for my wife to get a few things for a trip. I saw a very large (6'-3" or more, and 260+ pounds) drunk working the parking lot trying to get money for liquor.
I had the windows rolled down in my truck because it was 80+ degrees. He saw me sitting in my truck and started walking toward me. I rolled up the windows about 2/3 of the way. He started banging on the glass on the driver's side demanding money. I asked him to go away as I was not going to give him money for liquor. Then he shoved his arm through the open portion of the window attempting to grab me. I got my Walther P5, pointed it at him and told him that I thought the best thing he could do was go away. He took one look at the pistol pointed at him, jerked his arm out of the window and high tailed it to another part of the parking lot. As far as I'm concerned there was no other course of action in the short period of time this all took place. It's easy to second guess "what's best" given lots of time to look at all of the alternatives - but in the 30 second period that all of this transpired, there's really not a lot of time for analysis. I'm sure lots of situations fall into that same category - not a lot of time for analysis - you just react to the situation. In my case, it all worked out for the best for both of us. |
August 11, 2013, 09:19 PM | #66 |
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My opinion comes from discussions with multiple prosecutors, DA's, and ADA's. if you are getting 'robbed' something we haven't really defined situationally, (i'll assume someone trespassing, taking your stuff, who you are not within a few arms reach of)you see a gun in the thief's belt, so you draw and fire upon seeing it(even if he 'motions' for it) you are in for a legal battle you may very well lose. Regardless of what people say would be a legal use of your firearm.
Last year a local business owner shot a man 'going for his gun in his truck' after threatening the owner. months after the business owners arrest, he was found to be in the clear, but the jail time, legal fees, and lengthy trial by jury (which can go anyway), speak to what I'm trying to get across. Last edited by JohnKSa; August 11, 2013 at 09:42 PM. Reason: No Zimmerman hijack, please. |
August 11, 2013, 09:37 PM | #67 |
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At what point do you draw?
'Going for a gun in his truck' and having a gun in easy reach in a waistband are two VERY different things.
What we have asked for are cases that prove the points that you have made, because I, for one, don't think they exist. I have also spoken with attorneys, criminal prosecutors, and even judges on what their definition of 'immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm' is and it most certainly is not what you are trying to show. That is the wording from the Texas Penal code regarding the justifiable use of deadly force. Is it verbatim what other states have? No, but it is a good indication and, thankfully, the word 'imminent' does not take new meaning when we cross state lines. Last edited by JohnKSa; August 11, 2013 at 09:43 PM. Reason: Removed response to deleted material in another member's post. |
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For example, robbery is defined in the law, there's no need to redefine it here, nor is it productive, especially given that your attempt at a definition is badly in error. Trespassing and simple theft are NOT robbery and while armed robbery is virtually always justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense, simple theft and trespassing are virtually never sufficient justification. If you see an armed person committing trespass or simple theft and you use deadly force against them with no other circumstances to justify it, you're almost certainly in a lot of trouble--it's going to cost you some legal fees, even if you avoid jail. Shooting someone who is committing armed robbery is an ENTIRELY different story. That said, if a person is trespassing or committing simple theft and starts to go for his weapon when you see him, you would certainly be justified in drawing your own firearm if there is no other reasonable course of action. That is true because a reasonable person would consider his move towards his firearm to constitute the start of a deadly force attack on your person. He has means (firearm), motive (desire to escape/cover his crime) and he certainly has opportunity (can harm you if he wishes). Those three things together with his action towards his weapon are certainly sufficient circumstances for a person to assume that a deadly force attack is either in progress or imminent.
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August 11, 2013, 10:36 PM | #69 |
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Recently I too had a guy come out of nowhere and pop up next to my driver side window asking for money!! (Must be the economy or something)
I'm grateful I am not trigger happy. I also do not spook easily. Unfortunately, I can think of several times in my life, where I probably could have drawn but did not have a gun. I would say about, "4 of these," I was a minor... But I grew up in early 1990s NYC. Mugged twice at knifepoint, and attacked pretty badly two other times. The other time, where I probably could have drawed, I was traveling in the UK so.. "no gun." I think the moral of this all is, "There are a lot of situations where you can draw. However, those same situations can be survived without drawing." You can get out a lot of street trouble without a gun. I believe the time to draw is when: There is no other option. You want it clear to you and a jury of your peers that you had no other choice. Life or death.
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If I were to draw on every homeless person asking for money I would need a gun mount on my window. Drawing and threatening deadly force without an articulable justification can be considered assault.
Sounds like you handled it well. Should he have reached in, made threats or attempted to enter the vehicle, then I would say "game on". |
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My advice to you is to read the law for yourself. In Florida a person is justified in using deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another OR to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. So if a DA or anyone else for that matter tells me that I can't use deadly force (firing at the robber with a gun in his waistband who is moving to get that gun) they are wrong according to the law. Quote:
Around 80 percent of civilians shot with handguns survive. Would you allow someone to shoot you during a robbery just because the overwhelming majority survive the same situation without fighting back with lethal force? |
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I said nothing about taking a beating before you draw. In fact I said, "those were times where I probably could have drawed."
The laws vary by state. "Lucky," is incorrect. If you are walking to your car, and a thug comes to carjack you, and the thug already has a gun in his hand, even if you have your gun on you, you will need a lot more than a draw to get yourself out of that situation. You will need to reverse the odds from a disadvantage. That's a lot more than luck.
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Now let's look at the basic legal reality of the use of force in self defense.
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So I simply explained that you were lucky. Guess what???? Your robbers/muggers didn't kill you and that is lucky for you. Many innocent folks die every year from the same beating and/or a robber who decided to use the knife. If you are walking to your car and a thug comes to carjack you and you allowed him to approach you with a gun in his hand without a response then you deserve to be at his mercy. At that point compliance is probably the best course of action. |
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