A young deputy in GA pulled over a driver who reaches for his gun, deputy drew his weapon and repeatedly asks the driver to lay down his gun and put his hands up. Driver ignores the repeated warnings, gets up an fires at the deputy who later dies from gunshot wounds. His patrol car video cam caught it all on tape. Real sad.
I posed the question on another thread. Many freepers have CCW permits. Wonder how they would have reacted if their car was rammed twice?
Thanks, oh stainless one.
Having skin in the game affects the thought process.
I always tell people who ask me about getting a fire arm: Visualize pieces of my skull and brain hitting the wall behind me. If you get a gun and you want to use it effectively, you have to decide NOW that it's okay to see pieces of skull and brain hitting the wall -- and to know you made that happen. It's too late to wrestle with it when you have to draw the gun you bought.
That poor deputy didn't want to kill the guy. He hadn't done his homework, he hadn't decided. Like a lot of cops he signed on to protect people, not harm them. God bless his sacrifical but maybe insufficiently prudent heart, and may God console all those who love him.