He should have shot them.
Totally justified.
Are they attending a "prep" academy or a "perp" academy?
Yeah, what "academy" is located in a neighborhood that has bars on windows and cages around air-conditioners?
^This^ Disparity of force is a justification. He was outnumbered and set upon by a group intending potentially serious bodily harm.I feel he would have been justified in using his weapon in this situation. Dozens of attackers and he's got a 3 month old baby in the car, that seems like a deadly situation to me. I would guess the rest would have scattered after a couple of gunshots, but who knows.
I wonder how many of those kids were beat (and no, not actually beat, but spanked) growing up?
Maybe... that approach did not work so well with the white trash in the Walmart parking lot. That group stuck together like inbreds at a Kentucky orgy and probably used pepper spray to flavor their food.
Great idea so then that round can land in a innocent persons car and your charged with manslaughter If you feel that you need to pull a weapon and shoot it better be at a person that is causing the problem.There are many here, including myself, in most cases who would argue that firing a shot in the air is a stupid idea, but in this case it might have been appropriate. Firing a shot and then point your gun at the ring leader would cool things off real fast. He is a better man than I for showing such restraint.
Great idea so then that round can land in a innocent persons car and your charged with manslaughter If you feel that you need to pull a weapon and shoot it better be at a person that is causing the problem.
There is risk in everything. I would have said shoot into the ground but he was on pavement. He is lucky to be alive.
They are feral youth!....no different than a pack of wild dogs.
If deadly force use isn't justified in a mob attack like this, I don't where it would be.
I would agree, however as to not saying anything to antagonize the mob. There was valor in walking the lady to her car, past that, he kind of left the discretion part out.
It's fortunate he wasn't hurt worse than he was.
I think that Wil Wheaton did it right here, aside from the obvious Hollywood mistakes of cocking an already cocked 1911 and shooting into the air.
I'm guessing these are the "time out" kids.