You sound like a cop.
At least you had better be if you shoot a kid with a toy gun.
You will NOT be able to use the fact that it looked like a threat as an excuse. Then again this is in Maryland, the ONLY way you would be packing is if you're a cop.
Maybe in MD, but in most of the free states, reasonable fear of loss of life or limb is the standard. Doesn't matter if it's actually real or not, the shooter would deservedly get off scot-free.
Not all of us have to rely on the police to protect us.
"You sound like a cop.
At least you had better be if you shoot a kid with a toy gun.
You will NOT be able to use the fact that it looked like a threat as an excuse. Then again this is in Maryland, the ONLY way you would be packing is if you're a cop.
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Nope. I'm not a cop. I live in Minnesota, and have a CCW permit. When someone points a gun at me, it's not in my nature to examine it for a very long time. If I saw the colored tip, I'd hold fire, but lots of kids take those off or paint them.
Any parent who allows teenaged children to point even toy guns at people in adjacent automobiles needs to have his head examined.
I cannot imagine what my father would have done had I done something like that as a teenager, but it would have hurt...a lot.
You do not understand the situation. When someone points a gun at you, you have very little time to decide what to do. If you delay and the gun is real, you could be dead. If you do not delay, the person pointing the gun at you could be dead.
Children do not point guns at people if they have decent parents. Children who point guns at people in states where CCW is legal and common, end up dead. Further, in states that have passed laws regarding self defence in threat situations, the person who shoots the gun pointer is going to walk free.
Make no mistake. Pointing any sort of gun, toy or real, at another person, especially a stranger, could be your last act.
Teenagers? A sizable proportion of murders in this country are done by teenagers.