Neighbors arm each other vs Looters in Fla

[AmEngRifles]

Guy in Panama City should have said he had an “accidental discharge” due to being “ frightened by the situation”...

On conversation about duty of law enforcement to protect. We saw the effects of law enforcement ( school resource officer) at Parkland High School not stepping up. That is obviously only one narrow example, but it is a startling example. Would a citizen have been hailed or jailed if they stepped up, and stepped into the fray with a firearm and done the job we expect law enforcement to perform?

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[WarPig1976]

Would a citizen have been hailed or jailed if they stepped up, and stepped into the fray with a firearm

We had a nutcase kill a woman and wound the doctor before the doctor pulled his own pistol and fired back at a local hospital. Of course it was against his employer's policies for anyone to be armed, he wasn't facing any legal problem because obviously it was a good shoot and not one of the People's Republic States that surround us that forbid CCW.
They were going to fire him but the public outcry saved his job, the man did what was necessary. BTW, he carried the pistol just because he was concerned about that specific patient. He knew if things went sideways it's hard to carry a Cop in your front pocket.

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