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Your always responsible for each bullet the comes out of your gun. If it hits the bad guy, well so be it. If it hits an innocent bystander, well then one has serious problems.

Purplehood wrote:I have speculated about what might happen in a carjacking scenario. As I understand it, one of the scenarios is to hit a victim while at a stop-light with cars all around blocking any escape.
My concern would be how would I handle sitting behind the wheel of my car and seeing a BG approach between cars. Do I shoot at him/her and not worry about the innocent bystander operating/passenger in the car to my left?

Before thinking about shooting the guy, I would give serious consideration to using your car to get away. You did state that there would be other cars blocking your escape, but if you don't get right up on the bumper of the gun in front of you, you can make it through.

Next, use your car as a battering ram, or as a weapon if you have to. Most cars have enough power to get you past another vehicle if you hit it on an angle at the quarter panel or someplace similar. If the guy is truely possing threat to you ram him between your car and another car. A several thousand pound vehicle is just if not more deadly than a 100 to 200 grain bullet. If he is approaching from the back on the drivers side, cut your wheels hard right and slam it in reverse with the skinny pedal on the floor. When the front of you car heads towards him he most likely will move, if nothing else, it will hopefully put him in front of you instead of behind you, where you can get some cover behind the dash, and be shooting forward instead of trying to shot behind you and drive forward if it comes down to it.

Until it happens you never know what options you will have, but using the vehicle is a great one to keep in mind in some situtations.

Hope the CHL holder makes a full recovery.

A few thoughts. Yes CHL holder probably needs to spend some time at the range, but first of all he needs to improve his situational awareness so he isn't caught off guard next time. I know you can't be 100 percent all the time, but we can always improve.

As far as the ducking an weaving in the parking lot during the gunfight, well I don't know. If someone is shooting at me, and I take cover behind a vehicle, but bullets are still coming my way, I am definately going to be low, and moving instead of just staying ducked down waiting for the guy to come around the front/back of the car and catch me sitting still. If when I am moving I am able to catch him and put a shot on target while he is engaging me I will.

Not being there we can't be sure how it went down, but I find weaving in and out of cars much more preferable to popping up in the same location repeatedly and returning fire from a static point.

I am curious to find out if the CHL holder was injured initially, or later on during the gun fight.

Hope like heck they catch the would be car jacker.

BTW, those do look like some pretty large wheels on that Hummer. Wonder how it would do in the woods or on the trails?