Byron Quick
Moderator In Memoriam
Why didn't the guy leave? Maybe he didn't like the idea of someone emptying a magazine into the passenger compartment as he drove away. If I'm close enough at night for you to see I have a rifle then I guarantee you that I am capable of putting every single round of a thirty round magazine into the passenger compartment before the car gets a hundred feet.
I had a man threatening to shoot me one day while collecting. Hand in his jacket pocket. I had to back down the driveway past him to leave after getting back into my car. I really had no desire to allow him the opportunity to fire into my vehicle. I remained in my postion-with the engine block and wheel between us with my hand on a Ruger Security Six until he staggered sideways and fell down. Then I jumped in the truck and boogied.
Attempting to retreat from a person armed with a magzine fed rifle and who is close enough to see that rifle at night is a good way to leave yourself at their mercy. What will be the consequences to you if they have no mercy? You come out of the night at me with a rifle and one or two things will happen: I'll decide that intentions are benign and we'll josh about guns or I'll decide that your intentions are not benign and I'll open fire. I don't think that any state requires that you retreat under fire. Retreating in that situation would be an idiotic risk to take with your life. Against a person who is barely competent with the weapon and has the will then you will die retreating.
I had a man threatening to shoot me one day while collecting. Hand in his jacket pocket. I had to back down the driveway past him to leave after getting back into my car. I really had no desire to allow him the opportunity to fire into my vehicle. I remained in my postion-with the engine block and wheel between us with my hand on a Ruger Security Six until he staggered sideways and fell down. Then I jumped in the truck and boogied.
Attempting to retreat from a person armed with a magzine fed rifle and who is close enough to see that rifle at night is a good way to leave yourself at their mercy. What will be the consequences to you if they have no mercy? You come out of the night at me with a rifle and one or two things will happen: I'll decide that intentions are benign and we'll josh about guns or I'll decide that your intentions are not benign and I'll open fire. I don't think that any state requires that you retreat under fire. Retreating in that situation would be an idiotic risk to take with your life. Against a person who is barely competent with the weapon and has the will then you will die retreating.