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MBGuy wrote:Ok, but what if you know them? The setting I live in there are neigbors to both sides of me with kids. I know them, know the parents, etc. Let's say that one of said kids is riding his/her bike from a friend's house up the road and there's an attempt to kidnap him/her. I KNOW it's not the parents or relatives. What then? Being that I'm always outside and always armed, I've always assumed that if close enough, I'd draw if it's not too late and yell like crazy to get some more neighbors attention, hopefully the parents of said child. Otherwise, if too far, I'd call 911 and get in the car. Once again, I know the kids, their parents, and even some of the grandparents, and the fact that these kids wouldn't throw temper tantrums just cause they didn't want to go somewhere.

Ya'll might say I'm wrong, but if I'm 100% sure as I would be in the case of OUR kids on OUR street, I'm not just going to be a good witness.

Have you been trained in how to handle this situation? If not you are placing the person being taken in danger. Why would you do anything other than being a good witness? I hope you are never in the situation that we are discussing here, and I agree we probably all want to do something rather than just stand there, but if you show your weapon the BG is just going to pull the hostage in closer, and grip their weapon tighter. This is when things can get out of hand. Quite a bit of scenarios discussed here lead me to beleive that you and others are planning to draw and shoot if given the opportunity. You need to look up some police incident reports and read about the number of rounds fired compared to the number of good hits. I know we all practice as much as possible. Based on the earlier thread I posted most of the core group on this forum fire considerably more rounds a month than the vast majority of LEO's. The majority of our shooting is at a range, not in a real life or death struggle. When the heart is pounding and the adrenaline is flowing one tends to not be such a good marksman, I know of LEO's that have fumbled while trying to clear their holster.