Home defense, questions....

[chrisguy]

On a side note.
I like to see how many sheep there are when I'm in a store. I often make people nervous checking them out, but oh well. Point is, I take inventory of everyone and run through scenarios in my noggin...

I do the same thing - each of the martial arts teachers I've had stressed the need for situational awareness (tho some more than others, depending on the class). Size up your surroundings, look for "outs" as you do in traffic, see who's going to be the bigger/-est challenge/risk/threat and prioritize before anything starts, etc. Always try to avoid conflict if possible, but if you can't, act decisively and quickly. Made the mistake of ignoring a drunk a-hole's two friends once (all parties unarmed) ...won't happen again.

I'm interested in hearing the answer to your ? about stopping someone in flight. If the guy was clearly unarmed I wouldn't hesitate to give chase, but not sure I'd grab a gun if he was already in the street.
[popcorn]

[KarlPMann]

also, HunterCO/Karl.
At what point are we allowed to stop someone that has just robbed my house? ie, still on my property, running from it......

It all comes down to ONE question, at what point do you feel your life/health/safety is at threat? When the answer is "NOW", then shoot. Karl.

[Mule]

I wouldn't shoot unless the situation called for it. What I was interested in is if we have alegal leg to stand on if we try to stop someone that has something of ours from fleeing outside our house?
I really ought to be ask Dudley Brown to clarify this stuff for us more.
I don't think it's on their Q&A page ( http://www.rmgo.org/faq/index.shtml )

side note,
If you aren't a member of RMGO, please consider it.....
www.rmgo.org

I'm not feeling too well this week, so I may be off track on my thinking/posts. Sorry guys, results of working 5 days straight and almost no sleep.....

Greg