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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Read what I was replying to. If Hudson had no gun in the restaurant (it has not been found) then the good guy with the gun did not save anyone from being shot. THAT is what I was replying to.
I'm still not sure how I feel about shooting someone because they *might* have a gun. This situation is a little different since Hudson appears to have been shooting while outside and was now inside and looking for someone to confront. Still, I would like the standard for use of deadly force to be higher than just thinking someone might be reaching for a gun, especially since it turns out there was no gun.
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He had already demonstrated violent behavior by firing a gun outside the restaurant. He comes into the building angrily demanding to know who called the police and then reaches into his pants. What would any rational person think about his reaching into his pants? When you are on the floor bleeding out, after being shot with the gun he had in his pants, are you going to be thinking that you were the better person for not shooting first?
As I asked in a previous post, where is that gun? He was seen shooting one just moments earlier in the parking lot.