Shoot To Kill Or Warning Shots

Aug 7, 2015 | 3 comments

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Shoot To Kill Or Warning Shots

This is a questions that often comes up; do you fire warning shots or do you shoot to kill? The legality of shooting to kill or firing warning shots in a life or death situation may surprise you. Today you’ll hear from this defensive tactics instructor and competitive shooter. Defend and Carry’s Annie Stonebreaker and Toby Shell take on an important defensive gun use issue in this episode of Gun Tips.

Firing waning shots can be extremely dangerous in most situations. It’s illegal to discharge your firearm within city limits unless there is a direct threat to your life or to those around you.

This gun tips video explains to viewers how important it is to know what’s near and behind your target before shooting. If you were to fire a warning shot, Toby says that you would have no idea as to where that bullet could end up. It has the potential to kill an innocent person.

You should never shoot to kill, according to Toby. Instead, you should shoot to stop the threat at hand. The only case you should shoot another individual is if that person threatens your life or someone’s life around you.

This defensive gun use video will explain to defensive gun users that warning shots or shooting to kill are both unnecessary ways to counteract a threat.

Next time on Defend and Carry’s Gun Tips, we will be tackling the debate: concealed or open carry? Be sure to tune in for information on the pros and cons of these two defensive carries, and learn which one would be optimal for you.

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Author: Stephen Halverson

I am a happily married father of 6 with one last one on the way. I am a passionate supporter of The Second Amendment and The Bill Of Rights as a whole. I believe in supporting the rights of myself and of others whether I agree with those individuals or not.

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  • David Kirk

    Warning shots only show them where you are…

  • Russ Bunyard

    Annie and crew I have to disagree with you on this issue. I was always taught as a child and as a soldier that you should never point a a gun at something you do not intend to kill. I only point a loaded gun at someone that I intend to kill….If someone poses a threat to my life and family, and it comes down to me pointed a loaded weapon….it will not be a warning shot. Maybe a warning shot for a bear or Mountain Lion….not a two legged foe. The video was cool…but I do not like the advice of your counterpart. I do not fire warning shots. I respect his service as a law enforcement officer, but disagree on this tactic. We had some people trying to scare us on our property one night a few weeks ago and I engaged them with my AR-15 and challenged them. I told them that I had them in my sights and that if they crossed my property line I would drop them. They left. My wife had my six.

  • Master Moto

    You should be ashamed of yourself in the way you portrayed this article. You have this “woman” in your photo flippantly holding a weapon either pointed at someone or something, and one with her holding it in the air. She is smiling or laughing like it is a toy or a time to “play cowboys and Indians”. There is nothing funny or flippant about holding someone at bay with a weapon, whether you intend to shoot them or warn them. A gun is not a play toy and this photo portrays just that idea. You must have never held someone at bay with a weapon. I have, and had the perp not dropped his knife, his brains would have been on the kitchen cabinets of my client’s home. No warning shot, just cold steel against his nose and the smell of gun oil. He gave me no choice and the movement was so fast he was on me from 12 feet away. That is the only reason he was close enough for my weapon to touch him. I had him arrested and he spent 22 days in jail before the trial. At the trial the judge gave him 90 days suspended for 18 months! That for attempting to kill me over a piece of tail that he thought I was encroaching on. He threatened 4 times that day to kill me, and still they did not lock him up. Like the deputy told me that day when I told him who the perp was. “You should have shot the son of a bitch!” “I would have given you back your gun and sent you home!” Nothing funny like your photo portrays. It took me a year to quit having bad dreams.