Do you personally know anyone who has been in a shooting?

Andrew, I think the case you cite is what they call a "statistical outlier" -- far away from the norm. I know two people who have fired in self-defense. One was in his own home. They found the burglar collapsed a block away with a .38 caliber hole in his kidney. The EMTs and doctors saved him; he went to jail. The homeowner was no-billed and there were no comebacks.

The other person was a woman. A guy approached her in a parking lot after dark and told her she was coming with him, he was going to "show her how to party". She fired a .380 into the pavement in front of him. It ricocheted and pinged his leg, and he ran like hell. She never called it in, she just went home and had a quiet little nervous breakdown.

There are cops in my family who have had to shoot; all turned out OK since they are still with us.

I have had to show a gun to a housebreaker, but he ran as soon as he saw it through the window. The only thing I ever had to shoot was a black Lab that had been dumped out in our neck of the woods and had gone feral. It had killed a couple of chickens and a Lhasa Apso in the area.
 
Dead, I understand a lot of them were racked up on a little program Atlanta used to run called "Operation Stakeout". They would have armed police officers hiding behind one-way glass at gas stations, convenience stores, etc. When someone robbed it and produced a weapon, they got shot. It's that simple. Make it dangerous to be a danger to society - what a novel concept. It was a lot safer to work the late shift, until they dropped it due to bad PR.

#27, I heard about - this guy calls his neighbor, then shoots her in the leg. BG holds up in his prepared house to wait on the cops. First cop arrives and tries to assist the wounded woman, he shoots and kills with a high powered rifle. So they call in SWAT, who sends in said officer with a M2 carbine. Officers pin BG down while said officer enters through garage & discovered house has been set up with a series of barricades to allow BG to shoot & retreat, shoot and retreat...he's planning on taking a lot with him. BG is hiding behind barricade - BG has LEO dead-to-rights, but BG chooses the "movie villain" approach and says something right before he shoots. LEO dives, emptying 30 rnds out of M2 towards BG. BG misses, but is still coming. LEO draws 9mm, empties 15 rounds. BG still on his feet and firing (fortunately missing). LEO draws .357 and shoots, scoring a head shot. One less psycho. Frankly, I'm glad we have people like that out there to protect us. I doubt the BG's neighbors thought he would do something like this...

BTW, the LEO is now retired.
 
Since 1982, Floyd and Marie Thigpen-Class III dealers-murdered. Mike Williams-murdered.
Alonzo Sapp-murdered. My uncle R. A. Golden-murdered. A friend of mine was acquitted of murder after shooting a customer who attempted to attack him by coming behind the counter at a convenience store. All of these were friends or family.

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Byron Quick
 
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