1. Guy holds you up at gunpoint and takes your wallet. He turns around to leave and you take out your gun and kill him. Justified?
No. If he was leaving you have no right to shoot him. I probably would though and claim temporary insanity
2. You see a guy holding up someone else with a gun. If you shoot the person in the head while his gun is pointed at someone, will his gun go off?
it could.
3. If you shoot someone in self defense but fail to kill him, and he is laying there slowly and painfully bleeding to death, do you allow him to die slowly or essentially execute him? What would the law say if you did the latter? You do not have the know-how or self-protection to render aid.
execution is illegal. Once the assailant is incapacitated you are required to call the police.
4. If you take out your gun to shoot someone in self defense but in the process kill an innocent bystander and the bad guy still escapes, what happens to you?
negligent homicide possibly at the worst...involuntary manslaughter at the least.
5. If you take out your gun to shoot someone in self defense but in the process kill an innocent bystander in addition to the bad guy, what happens to you?
negligent homicide possibly at the worst...involuntary manslaughter at the least.
6. If a bad guy is holding someone up and you draw your weapon and the bad guy kills the person being held up before being killed by you, what happens to you?
nothing related to the other victim dying...depends on your kill though what happens with killing the assailant.
7. If a bad guy sees you have a gun and takes someone as a human shield, what do you do? Do you lay down your firearm and very likely get shot while defenseless, or try to kill the gunman even though he has a human shield?
Well if it's going to be me definitely I am going to take my chances shooting. If I feel neither of us would be harmed I'd lay my gun down. Chances are though if I saw his face and he was armed he is not going to let me walk out of there.
8. If a person without a gun starts picking up stones and throwing them at you, can you use your gun to kill him?
no. Unless he was throwing those stones in an attempt to kill you and you could not flee.
9. You see a man raping a woman at night. Should you immediately draw your weapon and shoot him dead, no questions asked?
no...too many people think everything is rape. I would call out to them and see if it was ok and probably still send a cop to follow up just in case.
10. You are running away from a gunman hot on your tail and run into a room without an exit. You point your gun at the door to shoot the gunman as soon as he enters the room. There is motion, you shoot immediately, but it turns out you've just killed an innocent. What happens?
negligent homicide possibly at the worst...involuntary manslaughter at the least.
11. You go into someone's yard at night to retrieve a soccer ball your son accidentally kicked into the guy's yard. While on the lawn the owner comes out aiming a gun at you. Do you draw and fire or do you not do anything and hope the owner doesn't kill you outright?
the latter
12. There's a suicide bomber with a jacket full of explosives with a trigger in his hand and he looks like he may set it off soon. You are too far from any meaningful cover. Do you draw your weapon and fire at him?
depends on what explosives I thought he was strapped with. If I felt detonation was going to happen I'd start running.
13. A guy is frantically running away from someone chasing him and he's screaming for help. Do you shoot the guy chasing him, no questions asked? You're not sure if the chaser has a weapon or not.
no. Tell the chaser and chasee to stop and figure it out then. Chasee could be hoping someone takes the chaser out, when the chasee just stole or harmed the other person.
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