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What a tragedy. I have the most unfortunate experience of being TOLD by an individual that he was armed, and that he WAS going to shoot me. I was pointing a handgun at him, and it was loaded and my finger was on the trigger. I was in the open with NO place to take cover and there was about three meters between him and I. He was facing me and moving toward me at a walk pace and the odds of me striking his thoracic cavity was HIGH. I could see my heartbeat in my vision and hear it in my ears as I watched him in slow motion reach into his back pocket with his right hand. Everything in me was telling me to preserve myself and shoot him twice in the chest and put him on the ground. It was all I could do to just wait until I could get a good look at what he was pulling out of his back pocket. I was in the process of putting pressure on the trigger when he pulled a BEER CAN out of his pocket. I wanted to beat the asshole after that...not shoot him!

I'm not saying that the LEOs were right. I'm just saying that having been through what I've been through, I'm not so sure I would have reacted any different.

I am just curious and mean no offense, but why did you wait to see what he had in his hand? You weren’t required to..

I respect your decision nonetheless.