"Merle the Muslim"? Doesn't sound right.
Still if the driver felt threatened couldn't he have used dog spray or some other repellent?
Not the usual Muslim sounding name, but I don't suppose "Malcolm Little" is either.
My point is that we don't know enough information to arrive at such a speedy conclusion as some on this thread appear to have done.
Still if the driver felt threatened couldn't he have used dog spray or some other repellent?
Apparently he thought a gun was a better solution, and it indeed is if you think you might be robbed.
I don't even have so much of a problem with him using a gun if he would fire it initially to scare away any aggressive dog. I'm not sure a dog would continue charging after hearing the blast of a gun at close range.
But if so, then shooting it becomes quite reasonable.
It must have taken some period of time to draw it, so I have to wonder if he thought through his actions in the time he chose to draw the weapon.