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Originally Posted by MattLarson
As a civilian, you are ONLY justified in using a gun for defense against an imminent lethal threat. If you have time to be screwing around firing warning shots, you are not facing an imminent lethal threat that justifies using the gun at all.
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Not nessecarily. If you get conored by some scumbags at a distance of 15 - 20 feet and cant get away, then there is plenty of time to fire a warning shot first by my judgement.
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"Warning shots" may be well and good if you are out in the countryside, with nobody around for miles. In a populated area, it's an idiotic idea at best. That bullet is going to end up somewhere. And with a bunch of people around, that somewhere might just be in an innocent bystander.
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FYI a warning shot is
always fired up in the air - not horizontal, or down in the ground. The chance of some poor dickhead getting hit by a downcoming bullet from a warning shot is slim to none - and slim left town. Hell, a person would have a better chance of getting hit by a meteor for Christ's Sake.