The Marine did everything right and the situation went well, but there are all kinds of judgments he needed to make in that situation that are real stress testers.
The hardest one, I think, was when the perp stopped the beating when ordered to, and started to walk away, then asked the Marine to shoot him. Following him with gun drawn and talking on the cellphone could have been a high risk maneuver, based on the actions of third parties.
That is, if you see a man walking down the street, with another man following him, gun drawn and aimed, and talking on the phone, what do you do? And unless the police are talking to the dispatcher, what do they do? Not enough information.
if you could have immunity like an officer it’d be a different thing, but you don’t, and you’re coming into a situation partway through, you have no idea why what is going on is going on. she may have tried to run him over, which women like to do, or killed his dog, or nothing at all.
the problem is the average citizen has no idea and if you make a mistake the courts and defense attorneys wil have NO mercy on you. you are not law enforcement and you screw up doing a citizens arrest or drawing your weapon on an innocent person, you’re screwed.
they - libtards - have made it so you will forfeit your rights if you try to do what you think is helping someone. the fact is people who carry are not doing it to be some unarmed person’s rescuer. we would in a world where you weren’t sued and jailed for using common sense, but it’s not worth losing your 2a rights over.
now in a shtf situation where there are no/courts, leos and you are your own law, it’s different.