I have to keep my little 5'4" 120lb wife held back though.She's terrible to be with in traffic.I won't ride with her at all.I drive when we're together.I realize she's been driving from Coweta to Tulsa on the BA Xpressway to work and back every week day for years and years 8a-6p.She is nuts though.People cut her off or whatever she will flip the finger,yell at them,tailgate them some times,you name it.I always tell her she gets someone upset it's her fight,not mine,I'm staying out of it.I dread the day some asshat follows her home and starts trouble at our house where I will be forced to get involved just to save her stupid ass.
Traffic Tards. I despise driving these days. Especially on the highway around town. Not kidding when I say that I saw someone smoking crank while in traffic on the NW Expressway yesterday.
I'm sure some of the people reading this thread are CHL instructors, so I have a question.
Is it brandishing and/or pointing a weapon if a CHL holder pulls out his handgun and points it at a BG, in a situation where he perceives a threat, and then the BG stops his "attack"? In other words if you pull out your gun and the other guy backs off, have you violated any laws?
Sounds justified under the law. However, if you were in mine or many others CHL class you would have been instructed by the LAWYER who presented the SDA portion of the class that "If you touch your gun, someone must die."
Of course I was perplexed. WTBunk? Then all the newly (Soon to be) armed and inexperienced onlookers begin asking something similar to what you have asked. Only to be advised that if they did not kill the subject that threatened them before the thread subsided that they needed more training. WTBunk again? I was pissed.
That's simply not true. If presentation of a firearm quells the threat in a reasonably ascertainable fashion, then the use of deadly force is no longer justified. (Even though you having your gun out can be considered deadly force) Akin to the use of force continuum so taught to the PoPo's for many years. (Note: This applies a bit differently in your home where your allowed a bit more leeway in the use of deadly force)
The sticky point above is the "reasonably ascertainable fashion" portion. Which means that any reasonable person would have known that the threat had subsided. If you end up shooting and there are 5 witnesses that say the threat was no longer present vs your statements to the contrary, you will have some splainin to do.