Call 911, watch from a distance and if it seems to be escalating make your presence known but maintain an escape route and clean shooting positions.
Nope, I'm intervening. I may not do it armed but I'm not watching some guy beat up a woman. I've intervened in these types of situations twice...
Reading the event, gets my vote for a shotgun rather than a handgun. I keep 20 gauge loaded with 8 rounds near my bed.
His work area behind the counter is too narrow. He never could have deployed a 2-handed weapon in time.
I've got to see the bad guy committing bad acts. Then I will decide what action to take. If a lunatic starts mowing people down in front of me, I plan to stop him. I'll take the risk with the other CCW folks and the cops who are likely minutes away from responding to something that will end in...
To me, a lot has to do with a few things..was their tons of money involved, did he have insurance etc. Would it be worth getting seriously hurt or maybe killed for, or just give them the money and and get their descriptions etc.
You don't know what's in their dark hearts. A lot of dead...
I hope he's ok after that.
He seems to be taking it in stride. He told me and my father that he's lived a good, full life and he's not afraid to stand up for what's his. He said "if it's my time, then it's my time."
Is there a link to a news article or a police report on this incident?
The TV affiliate reported on it, but I don't know if there is a link. Regardless, I'm not going to give out his actual name/location.
I wonder what would have happened if he killed the guy. Chasing them out the door could be considered excessive force.
See post #25. They were still firing at him.
Personally, I would have let them go without further gun play after they started backing out the door. I would have been more interested in identifying the make and model of the car as well as memorizing the license plate.
The bad guys were "fleeing" while firing into Rick's store occupied by...
I disagree. "Rick's" 'pursuit' was arguably quite reckless
This was hardly a pursuit. It was a gunfight. The distance was never more than 25 feet. The whole thing probably went down in 15 seconds.
Directly across from the store where Rick was firing is a tree line and probably 100 acres of...
I disagree. "Rick's" 'pursuit' was arguably quite reckless. Has he accounted for all his shots and where they impacted?
Considering he was cleared by the sheriff, I'd say so.
Rick has been there, done that, and lived to tell the tale. We should all be that fortunate if we find ourselves in the same situation.
Indeed. He is also not a guy who has been to Gunsite, Front Sight, Thunder Ranch or Ft Benning's School for Wayward Boys. He's just a guy who refused to be a...
A family friend of our has run a little grocery-store/gas station for decades in rural southern Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. I was down there visiting for a funeral and we went by his store to pick a few things up.
On the way my dad told me about the robbery. When we got there I...
I take my kids, especially my son to the gun store all the time. No taboo at all. You have to watch out more for the adults. They're not expecting a small child to be standing behind them or in their vicinity and can easily step on a kid or club him with a stock.
You know how Bubba gets all...
It was a great experience and very affordable.
Yep, the head LEO has his own training company here in northern Colorado. I'll PM you the contact info in you're in this area. He doesn't travel like Suarez International or some of the other organizations.
This week I attended a joint cop/civilian active shooter course run by active-duty LEO's. The training took place in an elementary school. There were 7 cops, 6 civilians, 3 role-players, and the head LEO who ran the course.
This was an excellent class. Those of us on the civilian side got to...
"If you know you can't win, run like a ", and that applies just as much on the streets as it does in the mountains of Afghanistan.
If you know you have a good chance at getting away. This victim tried to run too late.
I could easily see some person saying "We were just gonna play with the guy, having fun with a video camera and he just started shooting"
If the victim had turned and drawn a gun on these idiots, it's not likely that they would have continued the attack. If they did attack him and he opened...
Another thought here - I read about this in Dave Grossman's excellent book "On Killing" - when he started moving away from them, he triggered a chase response, not unlike a dog going after a cat.
Unarmed or not, when he saw them converging, he should have turned into them and let loose max...
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