“The article doesn’t say if the shooter first tried to use the gun to threaten the drunk. It reads like the shooter drew his gun and shot. I hope that isn’t what happened.”
I don’t know your level of training, but here in Texas they are very clear. If you pull your gun, you better be able to prove that you were scared for your life (whether true or not). The best way to prove it is to put some lead into the bad guy. The worst thing to do is play games, like warning shots or extremity shots, or trying to hold a person at gunpoint (which requires a very high level of training and is not expected of a concealed carry person).
Yes, Texas is a very gun-friendly state (thank you Governor Perry, even if I hate you otherwise for wanting to put toll booths on our freeways), but even here we have limits and having a concealed doesn’t give you the right to use it to intimidate people. In other words, if you’re going to show it, then use it, and if you’re going to use it, use it to kill. That’s how things work, if you don’t want your life to get turned upside down.
Not to mention a toll booth is like a fair tax- you only pay for what you use.
Is it a hassle? Sure, it's annoying, but it seems a more constitutional method of raising revenue to maintain the roads than accepting federal highway funds.
I don’t know your level of training, but here in Texas they are very clear. If you pull your gun, you better be able to prove that you were scared for your life . . . .
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This is just not so. You don’t have to be afraid of losing your life only of serious bodily injury. Breaking your jaw or losing an eye is serious injury in my book. In Texas you don’t have to settle for injury you just shoot the guy and let him worry about it.