Check out this article. I guess you have to get shot or stabbed first huh?
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“I came out of that store, I clicked the safety off, and I was ready,” he explained on Fox and Friends “I had my hand on my gun. I had it in my jacket pocket here. And I came around the corner like this.” Zamudio demonstrated how his shooting hand was wrapped around the weapon, poised to draw and fire. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man holding a gun. “And that’s who I at first thought was the shooter,” Zamudio recalled. “I told him to ‘Drop it, drop it!’ “
But the man with the gun wasn’t the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. “Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess,” the interviewer pointed out.
Zamudio agreed:
"I was very lucky. Honestly, it was a matter of seconds."
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At 10 feet, I think Mr. Goree showed remarkable restraint in shooting his would-be assaillant in the arm. Remember, Aim small, miss small. Always aim center of mass. Mr. Goree's belligerent would-be assailant was lucky he wasn't shot center of mass and dropped dead to the ground. Indeed, I believe that had the man been shot center of mass, he'd have not been able to give the order to his daughter to "go get it", or in legal terms, to obstruct justice by tampering with evidence.
I believe Nathaniel and Edna Goree. But this story is about more than who's right; it's about what can go wrong when people feel they must carry a gun, legally or not. A judge and jury can overrule split-second decisions on the street. In many cases, of course, there is another problem: Whoever pulls a gun on someone should expect to get shot at, too.
Goree thought he was protecting himself. Now, with no job and a prison record, he faces an uncertain future, while his wife prepares to leave the house she has lived in for 23 years. "I'm living a nightmare," she said.
Goree wishes he had never obtained a CCW permit. "It wasn't worth the trouble," he told me. "At 59 without a blemish on my record, I never thought I'd end up in prison."
I need to see evidence that the defendant saw what a reasonable person would assume to be a weapon within a distance dangerous to life--as Doc M said, no more than twenty feet.
Perhaps the defendant wasn't paying attention to the avoidance and de-escalation part of the class instruction. Or, perhaps the instructor did not stress it enough. Or perhaps, the defendant just lost his control and thereby assisted the Brady bunch propagandists.
Is there a written test at the end of the Michigan CCW instruction? If so, it could be used as evidence as to what the defendant should have known about de-escalation. On the other hand, we weren't there, nor were the judge, jury and prosecutor.
So, mentally and physically practice scenarios: and you scenarios should include avoidance and de-escalation.
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