[Dead Corpse]

“However, you do have a duty to retreat once that threat ends,” Carter said Monday. “You do not reinitiate contact or become the assaulter.”

Why the hell not? You have positively id'd the guy. Go git him. If not, he could very well still be a danger to someone else.

As for firing warning shots, DON'T DO IT! EVER!!! This cannot be stated strongly enough. If the situation is bad enough to require drawing your sidearm, then it is bad enough to put two to center mass. Warning shots only work in the movies and could hit bystanders.

Put this guy through remedial weapons training and let him get on his way. As for the knife guy, toss him in jail to recoup from his injuries.

[Hacklehead]

“As for the knife guy, toss him in jail to recoup from his injuries.”

You mean the sucka isnt dead? How do you get run over 3X by a GMC Yukon and live? Was he the Jeepers Creepers guy?

[Jim Noble]

As for firing warning shots, DON'T DO IT! EVER!!! This cannot be stated strongly enough. If the situation is bad enough to require drawing your sidearm, then it is bad enough to put two to center mass. Warning shots only work in the movies and could hit bystanders. Put this guy through remedial weapons training and let him get on his way

You can't be serious.

In THIS case, firing to kill the perp ran an excellent chance of killing the wife instead.

AND, in this case, the "warning shots" DID work - they made the perp run away.