C-dub wrote:The police are supposed to be the "experts" and they have killed several people carrying pellet or BB guns and I haven't heard of one LEO being fired or jailed having killed someone with a pellet gun. Afterwards, they always say that they thought it was a real gun or couldn't tell the difference. Why should the burden of self defense be any less for me.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/10/ ... d-toy-gun/
http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Teen ... 40836.html
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/132566613.html
While I don't agree with the victim not shooting back, I do think that there are a couple of good points on this story.
1. It confirms what everyone has been trying to tell the gun grabbing Libs - just because we have a gun doesn't mean that we are going around looking for places to use it.
2. The victim and his girlfriend had talked about strategy in a bad event. She apparently separated from him and hide as they had agreed that she would do. I think this is a very important lesson for others. We need to have had the discussion with our loved ones in advance. I've emphasized the importance of separation, which is not the natural thing to do, because it adds confusion to the BGs and doesn't limit options as much as having a family member desperately clinging while things are going South.
The story does say that the CHL recognized that a bystander would have been in the line of fire, though apparently that is after the BG took off. A scenario of the CHL shooting at the BG with pellet gun and wounding or killing an innocent in the process probably wouldn't have gone well for the CHL afterward. Just sayin'.