I think ‘warning shots’ are a bad idea, that bullet is going somewhere and YOU are liable for it...if the weapon comes out it’s because you or yours are in grave danger it’s not supposed to be some sort of talisman that wards off evil by it’s mere presence.
“I think ‘warning shots’ are a bad idea, that bullet is going somewhere and YOU are liable for it...if the weapon comes out it’s because you or yours are in grave danger it’s not supposed to be some sort of talisman that wards off evil by it’s mere presence.”
Generally I agree however there can be a situation where a warning shot can be fired safely and effectively. Been there done that.
yup.
I several self dense case I have read about the defender fired warning shots and the bad guy claimed it was all a miss understanding and the defender over reacted.
Wasn’t a woman in Florida given a few years in jail for this recently?
If she’d fired those warning shots center-mass I think she would have fared better in court.
Within the last couple days, a music store owner in Detroit shot at a guy in his store he thought was trying to rob him. He missed the robber, the round went thru the store front window and killed a pedestrian outside the store............
Facts will eventually be determined but here's a case where an innocent bystander WAS killed