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CCW Dilemma: Saving Someone Else (Like an LEO, for Example)
DenmanShooter:
Would you get involved? I don't think anyone can answer that with any degree of certainty. Of course under these specific circumstances most people would say yes, I think. But you never know until you are confronted by the situation what you might do. Unless you are former or current LEO.
also: The LEO was yelling for help apparently.
also: How many times have seen someone driving a sheriff's patrol car and decked out in uniform that WASN'T a Sheriff or Deputy?
HuskerXDM:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on November 16, 2016, 03:43:40 PM ---I'll see what I can do. :)
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Maybe temple-index your CHP card in your support hand? :)
depserv:
OK so what is you see some bad guy robbing an old woman, and he can't get her wedding ring off so he pulls out side cutters to cut her finger off? Cutting her finger off will not kill her. So if, because of the specifics of the situation, the only way to stop the bad guy from cutting her finger off is to shoot him, would it be legal for an armed citizen to shoot the bad guy?
JTH:
--- Quote from: depserv on November 22, 2016, 10:29:27 AM ---OK so what is you see some bad guy robbing an old woman, and he can't get her wedding ring off so he pulls out side cutters to cut her finger off? Cutting her finger off will not kill her. So if, because of the specifics of the situation, the only way to stop the bad guy from cutting her finger off is to shoot him, would it be legal for an armed citizen to shoot the bad guy?
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"Seriously bodily harm" includes permanent maiming and mutilation. Also, given the situation, it would be reasonable to assume further aggravated assault on the criminal's part, with a potential death (from shock or other things) on the part of the victim.
Short form: If the situation meets all other aspects of AOJP, shooting to stop the attack would be legal.
HuskerXDM:
--- Quote from: depserv on November 22, 2016, 10:29:27 AM ---OK so what is you see some bad guy robbing an old woman, and he can't get her wedding ring off so he pulls out side cutters to cut her finger off? Cutting her finger off will not kill her. So if, because of the specifics of the situation, the only way to stop the bad guy from cutting her finger off is to shoot him, would it be legal for an armed citizen to shoot the bad guy?
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This is from Nebraska statute 28-109: Serious bodily injury shall mean bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, or which involves substantial risk of serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any part or organ of the body;
Seems to me that cutting off someone's finger involves permanent disfigurement or impairment of the function of the hand. I'm not a lawyer...
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