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(Vanity): Civil/criminal action for NOT using firearm?
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Posted on 10/28/2003 6:56:13 PM PST by rudy45

I know that armed citizens can and (unfortunately) have had problems because they used their weapons when doing so was deemed inappropriate.

I wonder, however, if any of them have (or if they could) get into trouble for NOT using the weapon when perhaps they could or should have. For example, citizen is in supermarket, and robbery occurs. Citizen decides against engaging because of no clear shot, or innocents are in the way. Later, people learn that this person was carrying, and file suit against the person.

Has such an event ever happened?


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1 posted on 10/28/2003 6:56:14 PM PST by rudy45
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To: rudy45
No suit appropriate as there is no "Duty to Act" incumbent on a citizen. UNTIL they make that "Duty" a part and parcel with the CCW.



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2 posted on 10/28/2003 7:10:25 PM PST by Chuck_A_Night_Driver
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Then why was Seinfeld and his buds arrested and tried in the closing episodes? Isn't everything on TV true? ;-)
3 posted on 10/29/2003 5:46:54 AM PST by CSM (Shame on me for attacking an unarmed person, a smoke gnatzie!)
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