“That makes it completely justified. When a mob is actually physically attacking you, simply drawing the weapon isn’t the only thing justified.”
Can you brandished a weapon in self defense? I know you can fire a gun in self defense when you are in fear of your life.
My understanding in some places you better shoot if you have a need to pull the weapon.
In Kentucky, you can shoot to kill if a reasonable person would fear “serious physical harm”.
And this was put to the test just a few years ago. The shooter shot and killed a man with a baseball bat hitting his car’s windshield. He was found not guilty.
And here’s the punch line: the shooter started it. But the batter escalated it from words to violence, so it was on him.
This is why you don’t see cases like this in Kentucky. With a crowd and him being hit by a thrown object (assuming it was something hard and heavy) he would have had the right to discharge his weapon in the direction from which the object came.