re: #168 Dopamine Fish

Well, give the man credit, he DID stop the bad guy with the gun. The only problem is, the police mistook HIM for the bad guy with the gun, which makes our entire point: “How, exactly, do the police tell the difference between a bad guy with a gun and a good guy with a gun?”

They can’t.

As someone who carries, I look at it like this: Do not pull your weapon unless there is absolutely utterly no other way to prevent the loss of life. That moment was already passed and he was playing cop.

If you do pull and shoot, after the incident is over, place your weapon on the ground and sit, hands in the air, far enough away from it that you can not possibly reach it and do everything the cops tell you to do. Expect to be cuffed, arrested and charged. IF you’re really lucky the charges will be dropped in a month or two and you might be able to get your firearm back from evidence.