There have been a few threads recently that touched upon; did you draw too soon?; you can't pull your gun if the BG has no weapon; don't unless you are going to shoot immediately, or just a fistfight is not truly a fear for your life scenario. What does one do when they have a physical handicap, for lack of a better term, when confronted by a potential threat?
For example, to hopefully make some sense of what I'm asking here. I have had mutiple fusions to my cervical vertebrae, nerve damage, weakness, blah blah blah, if someone threatens to hit me, with just fists, it is easily a life threatening event. In many threads recently it has been considered escalation, to draw if no weapons have been presented, or just plain wrong to do so.
Is it OK to jump up the force continuum so quickly? Most would not need to fear potential permanent damage from being knocked to the ground or just roughed up. I have to worry that if I get hit in the "right" way I could lose all the feeling in or the use of my arms, or worse.
What are the legalities for these types of situations? Is it all right to draw, when confronted, if you are unable to use simple self defense tactics or martial arts? Even pepper spray won't guarantee that a physical confrontation will not occur. Is it brandishing when you draw due to one or two just pushing you around, because you know that you can't physically fight back, even though you hope that you will not need to fire?
I guess basically I'm saying, what may put one person in reasonable fear for their life may not be what some others would think is life threatening.
For example, to hopefully make some sense of what I'm asking here. I have had mutiple fusions to my cervical vertebrae, nerve damage, weakness, blah blah blah, if someone threatens to hit me, with just fists, it is easily a life threatening event. In many threads recently it has been considered escalation, to draw if no weapons have been presented, or just plain wrong to do so.
Is it OK to jump up the force continuum so quickly? Most would not need to fear potential permanent damage from being knocked to the ground or just roughed up. I have to worry that if I get hit in the "right" way I could lose all the feeling in or the use of my arms, or worse.
What are the legalities for these types of situations? Is it all right to draw, when confronted, if you are unable to use simple self defense tactics or martial arts? Even pepper spray won't guarantee that a physical confrontation will not occur. Is it brandishing when you draw due to one or two just pushing you around, because you know that you can't physically fight back, even though you hope that you will not need to fire?
I guess basically I'm saying, what may put one person in reasonable fear for their life may not be what some others would think is life threatening.