Russell wrote:What if it's a parent picking their misbehaving child up and taking them to the car?
Now you've just pulled a gun on a mother/father that was trying to take care of their ill-behaved child.
Never assume anything when it involves you using force or deadly force on somebody.
I recall the screaming, kicking, roll on the ground and micturate in the pants fits my brother used to throw if my parents, who were abusive I'll admit, would try to get him to do something he didn't want to do, or try to get him to stop doing something. You would have thought he was being kidnapped.
It's like the example we were given many years ago about things not always being as they seem:
Joe gun owner, sitting peacefully on his porch watchin the world go by, is disturbed by agonizing wails from the house across the street and then the lady of said house chases her husband out the door and down the street yelling all sorts of imprecations, peppered with: "you murderer, you killed him, you never liked him and now you've murdered him! and so on in that vein.
Joe, being a law abiding citizen, draws his CHL and fires one well aimed shot at the fleeing felon and brings him down in a lifeless heap, whereupon the wife turns on him and, in the process of beating him to a bloody pulp himself, reveals that the mirder victim was her pet Gerbil and that her husband was actually the victim of a misunderstanding.
The Gerbil in question ran across the floor just as husband stepped in the door and landed right on it, with the foreseeable result. And her reaction was just one of angst.
Things may not always be as they seem.