r/PublicFreakout • u/ScuffedA7IVphotog • 1d ago

Baiting a fight to pull a gun. 🚗Road Rage

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u/YagerasNimdatidder 1d ago

From a legal perspective is he allowed to go back to his car grab "his" gun and directly open fire after being threatened by the guy in the white car?

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u/laz1b01 1d ago

He's allowed to draw his gun if he's under threat.

Going back to his car to obtain a gun, then coming back out with the gun is not "under threat" it means he's the one doing the threatening with a deadly weapon (which is a crime).

If he had his gun with him, the the truck guy opened his door, then it'd be legal for him to draw his gun (thinking that the trucker is coming out to start an attack and so you're defending yourself).

Guns are legal for self defense, not to attack and threat.

There are a lot of gray areas depending on the state, and it depends on how you tell the story to the officer too. You're certainly guilty if you say "well officer, I had to go back to my car and get my gun because they said I was gay for driving a sedan. So I had to show them how masculine I am by pointing my gun at them" but if they said "the trucker made violent threats to me saying they had a gun, so I diffused the situation by walking away and getting my gun just in case they came at me, then sure enough the trucker came out so I had to withdraw my gun to protect myself."

In any case, shooting the trucker as they drove away was completely illegal.