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Discharging a firearm during a SHTF situation - ramifications?
Just wondering what are your views (not legal) on what could possibly happen if you decide to discharge your firearm during a real SHTF situation, like what a lot of hurricane Sandy victims are currently in without power or resources.
Let's say you're bugging in with your family, but your neighborhood is getting really bad with looters hitting lots of homes, and the police are pretty much non-existent. If you have to use your firearm to dis-suede looters or badguys away from your house (firing a warning shot before actually shooting/killing them), what are some ramifications that you might see? Are you more worried about police eventually coming out and trying to disarm you? Or are you more worried about armed looters coming back in force, trying to overtake your home? Would you have instantly painted a target on your back as the guy who probably has supplies and he's holding out on them? |
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What's a warning shot?
If it's serious enough to consider pulling the trigger, it will be on-target (hopefully).
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A "made for television" movie starring David Janssen, not something you do with your firearms.
Last edited by VictorFranko; 11-13-2012 at 4:42 AM.. Reason: clarify for dooligan |
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1. If it's a loner and no one saw you, it'll be on your conscience the rest of your life. If it's a group: 1. The rest might run off and are never heard from again. 2. Relatives of the one killed return later and burn you out. 3. Relatives of the one killed later file charges against you. 4. They wait until you stick your head out - which you'll have to do eventually - shoot you, and take all your stuff. Bottom line, it's one thing to be up against a loner, and something else entirely to be up against a group. I'm not sure why you're asking; all are possible and no one can ever tell you that any one of these can or cannot happen. Last edited by kb58; 11-12-2012 at 12:10 PM.. |
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(...but that's not important right now)
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Your post made me think of the Korean shop keepers during the King riots.
How many rounds were exchanged? How many actually hit their targets? I don't want bullets flying around my neighborhood so I think it is imperative that in a true SHTF scenario when the police are absent and lawlessness comes to you and yours you should be aware of like minded individuals who are hunkered down and protecting theirs. Always be mindful that stray bullets always end up somewhere. Sometimes, I think it would be a good idea to become proficient with a cross bow. But, if I have to use a firearm, I'm not going to fire a warning shot. I'm going to stop the threat with hopes that every round hits my intended target.
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Just a heads up, guys...(IIRC) arrows are designed to sever arteries, causing the target to bleed out.
I don't know if the situation you describe is the best application for arrows.
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If ur alone i suggest no warning shots only shoot to kill if calls for. if u got a large group of heavily armed guys and ur presence does not deter them then same thing-shoot to kill. They arent afraid of ur group bcuz they got guns too and is determined to kill all of u for whatever u have
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Solution: HE tipped bolts... Incendiary would work too
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Weather doesn't matter -- the normal laws of the land apply. Follow them. Self defense is legal.
If there's martial law in a SHTF situation, you'll hear about it (assuming you're prepared to listen....how are the batteries in your radios?). Bets may be off at that point in certain regards.
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That is what bullets do!
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They typically happen when one has "buck fever", is just a bad shot or is a moron. I know that I've taken two bucks after giving them warning shots but, sometimes I'm just a nice guy who wants to give my food an extra chance.
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Be very very careful discharging firearms in certain cities. I remember a story in Miami where a woman got served a 10 year sentence for firing a warning shot at her abusive ex husband. Had she shot him in self defense she would have got nothing.
Moral of the story, no warning shots. Shoot to kill or don't shoot at all. That is why i'm a big fan of pepper spray. A good happy medium between no danger and extreme danger. |
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Unless it is truly the end of the world as we know it, sooner or later law and order will be re-established and actions taken will have to be justified. Make sure any deadly force is defensible in the courts.
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Are they in your home? Or are they just outside your home? Are they on your property? Or just passing by? Are they in your home and facing you? Or are their backs facing you? Are they brandishing any weapons? Are they shooting at you from the street?
I think you should be more specific. |
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Looting...sucks.
But are you willing to go to jail for your 80" top of the line TV or Blue Ray player or laptop? What about your neighbors? My thoughts are: You use deadly force to protect lives, not property. I will brandish and butt stroke but will only shoot if I feel threatened. Every situation is different so who knows. However, the above is what I intend to follow and will pass on to others. My two cents
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You don't shoot people for a property crime. Laws don't go out the window just because of a natural disaster or riot. |
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Yeah right
Unless you are in Texas & have the police on the phone telling them you are going to shot the robbers. Then you'll get off Scott free.
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I've never been more shocked to read in these forums, posts by people who claim that they'll take out ANYONE who crosses their property, regardless of reason... incredible. Retribution and personal vendetas will be swift against such people because being an army of one matters little if they've pissed off a mob. It's very easy to burn someone out of a house. Bottom line, think long and hard before pulling that trigger, because you can't take it back once that line is crossed. And even if the battle is won, as law returns you can bet they better be able to justify their actions. |
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Stop it! Logic and real life "what ifs" are irrelevant in this thread.
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In any given survival SHTF situation, if I feel my life or a loved one's life is in mortal danger (survival is on the line) whether the intruders are there to literally kill you or just rob you of your life saving survival supplies (food, water, medicines, tools, not TV's, stereos and Computers) leaving you for dead to starve, I will shoot to kill. A verbal warning may be given and if not heeded action will be taken. Warning shots are pointless.
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Sometimes you gotta put what the potential looters are doing into context. Are they going around looting electronics or are they scavenging food, clothing or shelter for their little ones? Do you shoot the father that is trying to feed his family? We can prep until the cows come home. If the supplies that we have worked so hard to prep get wiped out in a disaster what do you do? You scavenge. Are you a looter that deserves to be shot?
Last edited by frigginchi; 11-18-2012 at 6:49 AM.. |
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Thankfully, I live in an unincorporated area of a county where discharge of a firearm is not otherwise prohibited.
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I read that when there is looting that the person who is the home owner has the right to shoot on his/her property because the owners life is threatened and that the person is a danger to them. Personally I would watch through the windows and if anyone came in the house they are a danger to me and my family and do them in. There is no defense on why a person is in another persons house while there is looting going on.
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So much for good samaritans searching for survivors.
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Actually you shoot to stop the threat and keep on shooting till the threat stops. You don't want to kill anybody.
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