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txinvestigator wrote:

tomc wrote:

WaltherP99 wrote:Hello all, I was reviewing the Texas Hand Gun laws and found this. I have paste it below. My question is when I was in class the instructor told us not to pull our weapon unless we were going to use it. Because if someone else saw you pull your weapon and called a Leo that you could get arrested for flashing a firearm. But in this case the law seems to say you can to deter the criminal and not have to use deadly force.

Refer to this thread http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... php?t=1262 for a good discussion on this topic.

In summary it says you can only threaten deadly force (drawing or showing your firearm) if you would be justified in using deadly force.

No, it shows that threatening to use force is justified in any circumstance where the actual use of that force is justified.

It goes on to read that it IS NOT deadly force if you threaten to cause death or serious bodily injury by producing a weapon, if you intent is to create an apprehansion that you WILL use deadly force if necessary.

Put me in the agreement column on this one...

But "tx" would you also agree that it would be better "if" the suspect provided a reason first, to do you harm to some reasonably assessable degree, and then respond with a degree of force necessary to repel, or force the threat to disengage, before actually having to discharge your weapon to "stop" the threat???

I know situations require split second decisions, and you should not be expected to take an appreciable pause to try and figure it out before acting...

We just have the luxury of slowing the pace down here...Which I think is a good thing...