HAL9000
Lifer
- Oct 17, 2010
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Holding a gun to show it to the other car, to scare them, to make them feel threatened. That is pretty much the textbook definition of a threat.... Even if it's not pointed directly at the other person's face (assuming he's holding in by the handle as if he's ready to use it... )
If they have time to aim and point it at you, it's too late, you're already a goner.
If you are going to defend yourself, you need to do it BEFORE it gets to that point.
I know you do, which is why people shouldn't have the right to lethally defend themselves in ambiguous situations.
There was no law that prevented them from having a gun, from what was stated.
Deadly threat met with appropriate force. End of story.
Based on the information in the OP, I don't know enough to know if it was a deadly threat. It seems like it's not based on the wording.
The two SUVs, friends of each other, decide to get off of the Intersate and get gas. Police say the driver of the minivan, 53-year-old Su Hong Springer, also from Tennessee, followed them and showed a gun at the gas station.
