sparkman2
Regular Member
When we leave our homes everyday, we have no idea how that day is going to turn out but we pray that as the day goes on we find our way to make it back home to our families.
I carry everywhere that I can possibly carry legally in the Hampton Roads area and there is so much going on that I never know how the day will end. But today I was asked a question on what I would have done in a certain scenario.
Your having dinner with some friends and you are in a nice restaurant enjoying the company and atmosphere of the establishment. You are carrying, as you always do, for the sake of argument you are carrying openly. During the course of the evening, a commotion breaks out between two guest that are not in your party. The argument starts to turn for the worse when one of those two takes a knife from the table and threatens to stab the other.
After repeated efforts from the management and other guests in the restaurant to try to calm the situation, that individual eventually stabs the other. 911 has already been dispatched and are en route to the business. The individual with the knife is now threatening other guests and it looks like that person is going to stab another guest and does.
At what point do you as the individual that has the means to stop this person from committing these crimes, step in and take the necessary measures to stop them?
Do you defend those victims? Is deadly force justified?
I am interested to hear what people have to say. There is so many variables to this that I can't and wont go through all of them.
I carry everywhere that I can possibly carry legally in the Hampton Roads area and there is so much going on that I never know how the day will end. But today I was asked a question on what I would have done in a certain scenario.
Your having dinner with some friends and you are in a nice restaurant enjoying the company and atmosphere of the establishment. You are carrying, as you always do, for the sake of argument you are carrying openly. During the course of the evening, a commotion breaks out between two guest that are not in your party. The argument starts to turn for the worse when one of those two takes a knife from the table and threatens to stab the other.
After repeated efforts from the management and other guests in the restaurant to try to calm the situation, that individual eventually stabs the other. 911 has already been dispatched and are en route to the business. The individual with the knife is now threatening other guests and it looks like that person is going to stab another guest and does.
At what point do you as the individual that has the means to stop this person from committing these crimes, step in and take the necessary measures to stop them?
Do you defend those victims? Is deadly force justified?
I am interested to hear what people have to say. There is so many variables to this that I can't and wont go through all of them.
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