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OK, I'm an NRA member and an armed citizen who FREQUENTLY carryies concealed.
First of all, your friends dad would be completely fucked if he shot someone in the situation you described above. He has the right to protect HIMSELF from bodily harm with a firearm. Not play hero in the parking lot.
That being said, he does not have the right to interfere in a situation between two strangers when he has no idea what the context of the altercation is. He only has the right to protect his own physical well being.
If he was in the general area of the assailant then he could shoot them and say that he felt endangered when they pulled their gun and started aiming it around. That would be OK. But you can't just shoot someone having an altercation with someone else, that's not OK, especially when he doesn't have any context.
He probably just wanted to seem like a toughguy in front of you guys.
On a side note, you may not be aware that it is completely illegal to use lethal force on someone in order to protect your property. That's right, you can't shoot someone unless you perceive a them as posing a threat to your life. I think it's called reciprical force or something.
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