So to jump in the legal side of things.. Man confronts you verbally at first.. then you see him out of your mirror retrieve an AK.. At that point, and if you had the chance, can you use deadly force to protect yourself? You are literally trapped in a drive through line and in your car.. I am guessing it would depend on what state this occurs in and the laws of self defense in that state, but let's stick with Indiana..
As you evaluate this remember McD has cameras everywhere. Whatever justification you may have should be supported by video (or not).So to jump in the legal side of things.. Man confronts you verbally at first.. then you see him out of your mirror retrieve an AK.. At that point, and if you had the chance, can you use deadly force to protect yourself? You are literally trapped in a drive through line and in your car.. I am guessing it would depend on what state this occurs in and the laws of self defense in that state, but let's stick with Indiana..
Not yet...
It is NOT illegal to go up to you at the drive thru and yell and scream at you.
It is NOT illegal to walk around with an AK in a public place of which the mcd drive thru is. He could walk around with a sidearm, long arm, hammer, bat, rock, brick.
It becomes ILLEGAL as soon as he points that AK in your direction. At that point deadly force can be used to stop him as he has just committed a felony. A level 6 felony in indiana per ic 35-41-3-3.
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Wait until he points it at you? Um...no. not required by self defense law and a really bad idea unless you are tired of living.
U cant shoot someone just because they are walking with an AK. That alone is not enough.
That + them just yelling/screaming at you is closer to self defense but even then does it warrant deadly force.. hum....
I can hear it now: "You need to McBack-the-F-up."
And then there's this nugget fiasco:https://youtu.be/cMuw2C4qe88
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Deadly force is justified if one "reasonably believes that that force is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to the person or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony..."
The person need not have commited a crime already or pointed a gun at you. Yelling, screaming, especially threatening and then getting the rifle? C'mon.
The best way to get dead in this scenario is to wait until the other guy points his gun at you. I'm not Doc Holiday....and the law doesn't require me to be.
I'm glad that we can now be at peace.
If you're eating a sandwich that has been manufactured in a facility from some mystery meat, prepared by a bevy of minimum wage people in a brick and mortar building paying both management and corporate expenses, covered with a sauce and some veggies then served on a fluffy bit of bread and wrapped in a foil covering and served in a paper bag for less that $5 maybe you need to reconsider your eating habits.
Like the millers used to say: The whiter your bread the quicker your dead...because white flour and all products made from it are basically starch and bleach, just add butter sugar and some flavorings. The same can be said for the entire Mc menu. The new saying could be the faster your food the faster you die.