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4.) If someone verbally threatens my family AND he's holding a knife I DON'T reach for a gun (if I had one). I stand between him and my family and try to talk to him to find a resolution.
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This one I don't agree with. If he attacks you won't have time, so you reach first, if he attacks you shoot, if not you don't. Holding the knife and threatening is enough for me. His reactionin that fraction of a second will determine his fate, but by threatening and brandishing a weapon he has already crossed the line from potential threat to likely threat. Might this cause someone to be hurt when there was a chance there wouldn't have been anyone hurt? Yes. But since that chance swings against the aggressor I don't mind.