Quote Originally Posted by tdgrunt View Post
It appears to me that this guy had plenty of room to fall back, while shouting the command to 'move away'.

If he had been cornered or in "imminent" danger he should have pointed the weapon at the attacker and fired the weapon until the threat was neutralized. Nowhere are you taught to fire "warning shots". Neither are you taught to wound someone, or shoot the weapon out their hands.

This kind of poor thought and action help to scare people into thinking weapons are unsafe. We all know that it is PEOPLE that are unsafe.

+ one here...

I didn't agree with the re-holster part, once drawn I would have kept it out until I was safe... Granted he might have pulled a bit early, but that ship had sailed..

When faced with a knife inside of 21 feet if you are not "gun out and ready to fire" you WILL get cut...Way to many tests done on this...

Bottom line we don't have enough here to really judge, but with my 2 eyes I can see he could have re-treated, if after that he was followed, then shoot straight...