I’m glad it ended well.
May not look good on Bart the Security Professional’s resume, though.
Feet don't fail me now!
The “would you shoot someone over a” property crime seems a common theme these days.
Warning shots in a house? I don’t know, I think I’d rather clean blood out of the carpet than patch walls and ceilings....
Heh heh. The last thing politicians would want would be citizens shooting people over property crimes.
Holy smokes. If I ever find myself in a similar situation, I hope I have the guts to fire to kill.
I am sympathetic to the concept that the guy sounded like he wanted to surrender, but...who is to take someone like that at their word? I am glad he didn’t have to kill the guy, but having the guy run at you like that...
Firing warning shots to spare the life of a useless no-load, only to lose yours because you ran out of ammo doesn’t sound like a successful defense.
No mercy for the merciless - no warning shots - only two to the head and one to heart. End of story. Do not collect $200 dollars, do not hire an attorney, do not cost taxpayers more money, lay in your grave six feet under.
How the hell would you know with someone running at you like that? I don't think I would shoot someone in the back running away, but if I walked into my house and someone came running at me unexpectedly, even if they were yelling "don't shoot" I think I would probably have shot regardless of what they were yelling. That sounds crazy.
Not even a very good rent-a-cop.
You draw your weapon, you draw to eliminate the threat.
Knot put holes in the floor. ; )
“...and came running at me...”
Yep, that worked so well for Michael Brown.
The guy left himself wide open for unlawful discharge charges with all of the “warning shots” outside of the home.
And security guard or not, trying to cuff a suspect is not recommended practice. Hold him at gunpoint and phone the police, or let him run away, but don’t attempt to cuff them.
NEVER call it a “warning shot”!!
It needs to be close enough so EVERYBODY knows you’re serious.
The perp, at the moment,
and
the Cops checking afterward.
My idea of a warning shot is a gaping chest wound warning the perp that he is about to bleed out.
He’s lucky that he wasn’t sodomized with his own pistol. The idiot.
Firing a warming shot is an invitation for the bad guy to shoot you. If you draw and shoot, shoot to kill.
I cannot endorse warning shots, other than to frighten young children committing crimes. If you are satisfied with “running off” a felon, you are an accomplice to that criminal’s future acts, be they burglary, robbery, rape or murder.
Yes, you might not know if it was “your” criminal who committed those acts, but you should be haunted whenever such acts happen thereafter in your area, because they might be carried out, perhaps for years, by “the one you let get away.”
This is not just your concern, either. Policemen are unhappy if a dangerous criminal they are pursuing gets away. Doubly so if they get the policeman’s gun and use it to commit crimes.
So instead of warning shots, give a “command voice ultimatum”, hopefully different than what they might expect, such as “Lay Down Or Die!” And mean it.
It is no longer about you. It is about you protecting family and friends. And if you fail to do so, you are risking the lives of perhaps several innocent people.
” The gun shots alerted the neighbors to call the police, so they had some positive effect.”
Reminds me of an ad for an alarm company. The ad showed a picture of a gun and a picture of an alarm panel, and under the gun it read “this will never call the police”. Immediately I knew that was bogus, at least where I live. Fire off a few rounds and the cops will be on the scene MUCH FASTER than responding to what is more than likely yet another false alarm.
My warning shots will consist of two shots to the torso and one to the head.
Always fire warning shots AFTER you’ve dropped the perp. That way you’ll be sure you have adequate ammo.