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- From: kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <199211171820.AA29806@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:05:18 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <199211170651.AA00435@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
- #...
- ##I know the FBI's position is that a Special Agent who witnesses a
- ##a robbery is bound to try and apprehend the subject, even though it
- ##is technically not under FBI jurisdiction; do we, as "a well
- ##regulated militia," do the same?
- #
- #The militia has no legal status in this respect. You could hold him
- #until the police arived. If he ran away, I think you could legally
- #consider this "resisting a citizen's arrest" and use force to
- #prevent it _in_some_states_.....
-
- Use force to prevent bad guys from running away? Like how?
-
- As a side question, how do I prepare myself so that I know I can
- sqeeze the trigger when the time comes? I took a few so-called combat
- action shooting classes. But shooting at paper targets is a completely
- different story than shooting at a human being, IMHO. Guess mental
- training is *VERY* important too. Any comments?
-
- David
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