If that someone who did not stop chose to do so because attempting to do so would have put themselves and/or their family at greater risk, then I would understand.hheremtp wrote: If it was your Wife, daughter, son, father, mother etc. that had a gun shoved in their face and were not in a position to be able to defend themselves. Would you want the CHLer that just happened to be there to say to themselves; "it's not my family member so why should I care?" and be a "good wittiness" to their murder. How would you feel/react to hear that there was someone who could have stopped it but did not? I dare say that most of us would be outraged at the fact.
They were looking out for the safety of their loved ones first. I sure as heck wouldn't like it, but I would understand why they did not, and I would not fault them for their (in)action.
Then again, I am a very forgiving person. However, if they did so for nothing but contempt, well, I cannot say on this forum how I would feel.
Unlike Police and Military, CHL'ers are not volunteering their lives on the line for their fellow man. We do not give an oath to protect the people, uphold the constitution or anything like that.
That being said, at one time, I DID give such an oath, when I joined the military.
Personally, *I* would be hard pressed to NOT take action, if I believed there were better-than-not odds of stopping the guy and preventing him from taking further lives, of either my family or of others, even possibly at the expense of my own. If the odds were considerably stacked against me, and my action would more than likely cause more harm than good, then I would refrain from taking action until those odds shifted back in my favor again, or until there was a direct threat to me or my family. In the last case, you bet that I would go all out, odds unconsidered.