Again:-
One morning as you have your breakfast you answer the 'phone and your mayor or a police chief tells you that you (and other neighbours) have to attend the militia and go to the West entrance of your street to protect all your neighbors. You are told that a group of maniacs have entered a nearby town and killed many people in the streets. Thet were shouting slogans and all wearing blavck/white clothing. That's all you know.
You obey, and at 10.35am as you stand with one other neighbour at the West end you both see three big men wearing black/white clothes running towards you about 100 yards off. They are closing quickly and shouting. They are all carrying machetes.
Now........ you don't know it yet (ok?) but no matter what you do they are going to keep coming, shouting etc...... you don't know that yet! ./....... but all I want you to do is to tell me, step by step, what you will do over the next five minutes. OK? There is one initial problem for you.......... your neighbour loses his nerve and runs away, shouting something about only being a bus driver or something ( ) so it's you, mate. !!
Huh. So I'm standing there by myself, holding my rifle, after my neighbor flew the coop, in defiance of our police chief's in-effect deputization. There are three good sized men, running at me, wielding machetes, so there are three machetes visible. And they're shouting, maybe at me, maybe just shouting, but they are running at me. According to your scenario I have been informed by my chief that there are reports of killings and of people dressed how these men are dressed, and they are running at me, machetes out.
I scan the area quickly, looking for anyone else.
I shout at them as loudly and sharply as I can for them to stop. If they don't stop I yell again, constantly keeping a mental note of something like a 50-yard safety zone around me, thinking that if they do not stop then I'm going to have to fire a warning shot or two in the air, over their heads (way over their heads so as to not accidentally shoot someone else, like a near 90-degree upward angle). And then if they still do not stop, or if even two of them do stop but one of them keeps coming, then I'm going to have to shoot to disable and quick because a sprinting man can cover 50 yards quickly.
Shoot to disable means lethal force, the intent is to disable and not to kill, but in such business, killing is a distinct possibility since disabling means number one actually hitting them, and under such duress as this I'm going to have to aim for COM (center of mass) which is the torso. And if I miss I need to immediately regain site picture and fire again, and just keep firing until the man is disabled so long as he continues to intend to come at me with murder in his heart.
And if two of them keep coming then I really need to start shooting quickly because I might miss them both.
And if all three of them then double the above.
And boy am I glad that my rifle has a "pre-ban" 20-round magazine instead of the "post-ban" 10-round version, and I'm also glad that I've already got more 20-round magazines loaded in case I need them, or even just in case I get a moment to reload a partially depleted 20-round mag with a full one. And boy am I sure glad the gun is semi-automatic instead of a bolt or lever action gun. And boy would I feel better if I had a selective-fire gun instead, which can shoot bursts of rounds one-after-another, but I'll have to make due with the one I've got, that the restrictive and Unconstitutional gun /arms control laws permit me to own.
And if they all stop, which is the best case, then I train my rifle at their feet if they stay put, and if they start to move toward me again I raise the muzzle to aim at their groin area (known to be a stronger deterrent for men than aiming even at their chest or heads) and yell at them to stop again.
And if the dust settles, then I call my chief and tell them I've got hopefully three live and healthy men, and ask what do I do now with them. If at any time while calling, they do anything threatening then I may have to drop the phone and tend to them again. I try to remember to scan my surroundings while all this is going on, to watch anybody else who's come into the area. I cannot imagine the stress that I'm going to be under in this moment, but I've got to try to keep my wits. My priority here is my own safety, because I have a family, and my duty to my fellow neighbors.
....... crim record check = criminal record check.
Currently our practice is to release convicts after they've served their sentence, but sometimes we release men who remain a danger to innocent people. While the idea of preventing these men from arming themselves is well-intended, the only thing that it does for all the rest of us who are no danger to innocent people (which is like 99% of us if not more) is delay the just exercise of our human right to bear arms, so I am against that policy.
You get injured by some nut who was careless or reckless with a gun.
The hospital bills. The loss of wages for many weeks. The injury causing disability for life.
What is that cost in dollars?
Now show me how you'll get any compensation.
You have to sue.
