And since there were four bad guys to the one good guy, disparity of force would have certainly been an acceptable justification to employ deadly force. The issue is had I done that, I would have been fired immediately after the incident for having a gun while working for Domino's.
Welcome to corporate Amerika, Glock31. Dead minimum wage employee? Fine and dandy. Lawsuit from the survivors of a justifiably killed POS thug?
NO WAY!! Do whatever you have to do to keep yourself safe, my friend.
I delivered pizzas for a worthless pizza chain (Noble Roman's of Indiana, known by employees as "Noble Scrotums") for awhile and only had one threat. I was at some low life's house delivering a pizza one night - the low life in question was s**t-faced, his wife and 8 year old boy being there to see him in all his stewed glory.
After he paid me, he said, "You know, I had a roommate that killed a pizza guy for a pizza and his money one night." Something went off inside me - it was like something broke; I heard this voice in my head that said, "If you come around that coffee table at me, I swear to God I"ll kill you right here in front of your wife and kid."
Every muscle in my body involuntarily tensed up from an adrenaline dump. I said to this POS, "So are you going to try to kill me for my money?" He said, "Naw - I'm not a killer like he was."
At the moment, I was armed only with my 4" Cold Steel Voyageur folder, but it wasn't even in my thoughts. If this guy had of come at me, I would have crushed his windpipe and got in my car and gone about my work. He had no clue how close his wise-@$$ comments had brought him to death. My seven years of Tae Kwon Do training would have overcome his liqiud dumb@$$ induced bravery, I'm pretty sure.
I was jacked up on adrenaline for the next two hours - and I was livid that this low life had tried to intimidate me with his stupidity. I told my wife about it and she freaked - she wanted me to quit the job that day. I did work two more weeks, till I caught some attitude from my boss and told her to go have marital relations with herself.
The moral of the story is this: Keep yourself safe at any cost, and don't stay in a dead-end job too long. Even pizza delivery guys are human beings and deserve some respect.