Based on my understanding of the law, IANAL, you do not have to give the BG a chance to drop the gun, and it doesn’t matter where you shoot someone who is committing a crime that you are justified in using deadly force.Mrcoffee wrote: So what would you do........ just wait it out and see what happens, or while BG is jumping over counter draw and shoot BGWG while he is distracted? Do we have to give BG a chance to DROP gun... or shoot first, even if he is not facing us?
When only 10 to 15ft away from BGWG, you would not have much time to react if he starts shooting..... so enage at first op? Or wait and hope?
What would I do? That’s a tuff one. If I were 10 to 15ft way and had the opportunity to stop them safely, I MIGHT just do that. As Thomas stated, how do you know that this wont be the time that these guys decide they don’t want to leave any witnesses? Or what if the clerk could say something wrong and this guy just starts shooting? I’d see anyone committing a robbery with a deadly weapon, in a confined space that I have little opportunity to escape from, a serious threat.
Jusster