On 2001-06-22 11:43, Jake Salyards wrote:
That's my answer. Good thought provoking post. There was one in combat handguns a few years back. "You're at a swim meet and you see a man looking intently at the swimmers backsides, suddenly he raises a revolver... you are armed with an XYZ, what do you do?" The character in question is a swim meet judge, he is checking readiness and firing a blank pistol to start the match. That was an interesting one too.
Jake
The CH question is an easy one, as an armed citizen you are required to make every attempt to retreat first, if you are a spectator and not obstructed by the armed man you are in effect required to leave the scene before producing your firearm. Alternatively, if the firearm is pointed in a non-threatining direction you are also prohibited from going "guns up", only when the use of the firearm by the Judge in this case became threatining could you make the descision only if you or another person were in direct danger of death or serious bodily harm.
The mere display of a pistol or even an AK 47 does not enable the CCW holder to draw and display their weapon.
Another scene comes to mind, you are a guest at someones home on for a large/formal party. The evening goes well and later a group of armed men appear holding rifles, pistols, and carbines. They run around the room yelling and waving the guns in the air, you see them out of the corner of your eye from the balcony as several of them "lock and load".
They charge in a group out of your sight into the main bulk of the part goers out on the patio. You are armed and you are now at a dead sprint down the stairs as a great many of the party goers look seriously distressed and the people you came with are now in the room full of gunmen.
What do you do?
Well, I can answer as in this case the party was held at a diplomats home in xxxxxx, I was the armed man in fact a Special Agent assigned to protect a group of dignitatries, the armed men were led by the diplomats son -in-law, a colonel in the IDF and they were in fact soldiers there to celebrate, when they went out onto the patio area with our principles and they did open fire into the air with multiple bursts of automatic weapons fire. The estate guards were also soldiers and did not feel the need to let the American Security Team know that the soldiers were there.
They were some very tense moments for us and I really was unhappy.
What would you have done?
You need to be very careful and think before these incidents unfold so that you are properly trained, both legally and physically for the task at hand.
