Derius_T-
So if someone approaches me on the street, says "Give it up, man" and lifts his shirt, displaying a gun, that isn't a threat to shoot me if I don't comply, and he isn't committing armed robbery?
Are you suggesting that in such a case, before I can justify the use of deadly force to defend myself I must wait for him to take some further action?
If so, where do you draw the line, what's your "GO" signal? When he reaches for the gun? When he grips it? When he pulls it out of his pants? After all, so far he's merely "brandished" the weapon. Do you wait until he points it in your general direction, until he aims it at you, until he fires it, or until he shoots you? Where is your line?
I am not questioning whether or not it would have been a good idea to draw on the armed cat thief; I'm questioning whether or not it is legally justified. I say it is, you seem to be saying it isn't. If it isn't, I'd like to know where you draw the line.