Patting yourself on the back for not shooting innocent citizens in situation were you were in no danger but brag that you would have been "justified" in doing so.
Do you think any citizen not wearing the magic blue uniform would have been "justified" in murdering those innocent people?
Or are there two standards for what is a justified shoot?
No one was “patting themselves on the back” about a no-shoot/shoot situation. I was relaying facts where there were instances of citizens with firearms that could have ended badly for both sides.
I wonder how many times you’ve come face-to-face with someone with a firearm pointed at you and what your reaction would be?
And yes...in the situations I listed, I probably would have been justified in using deadly force when all 3 people failed to heed commands to drop their weapon.
I appreciate your ability to access that I was in “NO DANGER” in each of these incidents, considering I don’t remember you being there. But it’s a lot easier to sit at a keyboard and second-guess.
The uniform is blue, it’s cloth not magic, and as for being justified, YOU have much more latitude in discretion than I did then and in retirement do now.