The suspects took photos of license plates of firefighters' personal cars. They also threatened to find where the firefighters lived and said they would kill them and their families.[More]
I'd say at that point you're justified in "stopping" them.
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Nope.
ReplyDeleteAround 1993, there was a case in Massachusetts where a fellow and his wife were sitting at home, watching TV, when an enraged acquaintance broke down the door, brandishing a gun and threatening to kill the wife. The homeowner managed to get into a wrestling match with the intruder, and succeeded in causing him to drop his gun.
The intruder, now fleeing, paused to turn around and shout that he was going to come back later and kill BOTH of them. Well, that was an unambiguous, unequivocal lethal threat. So the homeowner picked the intruder's gun off the floor and shot him in the chest.
The homeowner went to prison for murder, as the assailant wasn't capable of killing him at that moment.
The homeowner had never had the required state lethal force law training, since HE wasn't a gun owner.
Oh, I didn't say it was legal. I just said you'd be justified.
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