Irony abounds.
What would you do?
- Thread starter Jarod
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Irony abounds.
Next time some "innocent" thug is caught running from police, can we quote you and the frog?
The other time I believe I talked about here before, talking a guy down who was going to shoot a guy over a pool game and whose quarter was up next. It was strange, I wasn't as afraid during the situation as I was later.
In both cases, the nerves didn't hit me till after it was all over.
When I was a kid, about 7 or 9 I was at a beautyshop with my mom, she sent me to the restaurant next door to get a drink. When I walked in the place was empty. A lady walked out from the back and made a mean face at me pointing to the door. I left and went back to the beauty shop. Soon police arrived from all over the place, the restaurant had been in the process of being robbed, the criminal had everyone held up in the back room.
Once I had a skinhead at a party with a gun pointed at me. It was an unpleasant experience. However training did kick in... It may sound like an action movie but I did disarm him and stood on his gun, it did convince him that he didn't want to go any further and defused the situation.
Thankfully in my case, I never saw the gun. The teller that did fainted!
Nope. It wasn't my gun, my training was always to disable reuse of the weapon (get it out of the area or to make sure they couldn't get it, it is why I stood on the weapon) but not to attempt to use an unfamiliar weapon. You don't even know if it is properly loaded or cared for, it is incredibly dangerous to use an unfamiliar weapon. I was 17 at the time so I didn't carry (it was about 1 month before I left for boot camp it was a graduation party at a friend's house), I just did what I had been drilled in for most of my life... It happened very quickly and before thought really ever kicked in. Muscle memory is a real thing.
Did you call the police?
people get scared/frightened, have a temporary freakout, maybe they think police wont believe them (especially if someone is a minority) I can think of lots of fucking reasons someone may leave. Are you really going to tell me that in the history of crime 100% of people that have left the scene were ALL guilty? Cause that is quite the claim to make.
i might have to change my avatar again. I swear I have read my own comments and out of my peripheral vision have thought darla made it and I am like "damn... darla is really making sense these days" before realizing I just wrote it. This just happened to my comment above
Not 100%, nothing like this is 100%, sometimes the guilty stay, but the innocent stay because they have no reason to leave, especially if that which threatened you has left the scene, now in some cases if the danger is still present some flee, like the guy being harassed by the road rage motorcyclist, but you are not suppose to leave the scene of a crime in which you are involved.
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LMAO
If only.
Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
Can't answer. Too many variables. I used to be in law enforcement and I wasn't allowed to shoot until a pretty specific set of circumstances had been observed. I can say that even as a civilian, these rules make sense to me and I would still observe them, and if all the stars aligned and I found myself in a "shoot" situation, I would call 911 either after the threat had been neutralized, or I ran out of ammo and I was running away.