With all the incidents of anarchy and unrest of late, there’s a chance that someday you or your loved ones could find yourselves on the dangerous end of a mob’s anger.
With that in mind and while you can think calmly and without haste, consider what the threshold would be for you to use deadly force if confronted by a hostile mob in your car, or in your neighborhood/on your property.
You cannot be cavalier in wielding deadly force in self-defense. The jury pool will not be a GSL meeting room full of advocates for self-defense.
Far from it, especially in Illinois. Doubly so for jurisdictions where the local prosecutors side with criminals over law-abiding citizens everyday (Cook County, for example).
Vehicle
You cannot use deadly force (gun or vehicle) to stop someone damaging your car. And brandishing a firearm hoping it will “part the Red Sea” of angry protesters will likely get you a criminal arrest and conviction by criminal-friendly prosecutors in larger cities. Don’t brandish unless you’re justified in using deadly force. You’re not starring in a Miami Vice episode.
At home, consider the same scenario of a hostile mob. No, it will probably never happen, but the McCloskey’s in St. Louis no doubt thought it would never happen to them either. And look what happened to them.
They brandished guns as a hostile mob tore down a gate and poured onto their property. No doubt the Soros-bought St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Kimberly Gardner thought the McCloskey’s were criminally wrong for threatening the horde with guns.
Even with the McCloskey’s restraint, the local prosecutor had cops seize their guns a few days later. Now they face felony criminal charges from the criminal-coddling local prosecutor.
Sometimes you just can’t win against a hostile prosecutor. So be prepared for a jury trial.
As an aside, do you have self-defense insurance? Now would be a fine time to sign up for a policy!
What is your line in the sand at home? Is it someone throwing bricks through your windows? Is it someone lighting a Molotov cocktail? Or commercial fireworks? Is it a violent and tumultuous entry as they break down your door?
Figure it out.
Consider this now, not when you’re in the middle of an involuntary confrontation where you will have a flood of emotions and adrenaline to manage in addition to a dynamic scene around you.
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