re what to do if you shoot somebody in article apr uoft utoledo edu steiner jupiter cse utoledo edu jason think steiner says jason kratz u uicvm uic edu writes say you re in a situation where you have to pull a gun on somebody you give them a chance to get away but they decided to continue in their action anyway and you end up shooting and killing them my question is what do you do should you stay and wait for the cops or should you collect your brass if you re using a semi auto and get out of there provided of course you don t think that you have been seen what kind of laws are on the books regarding this type of situation what would be the most likely thing to happen to you if you stayed and waited and it was a first offense what would happen if you took off but someone saw you and you were caught ghods do you have any idea how much trouble you d get into for taking off like that leaving the scene of an auto accident is bad enough killing someone leaving is times worse who s going to seriously believe it was self defense when you took the time to collect your spent casings but officer i reload well like someone said in a reply to this it really all depends on the area that you live in see david veal s reply to this i have heard exactly the same thing that he said in his reply to fade away if you think that you haven t been seen i heard this from a police officer for the record though he was talking about in tennessee not everywhere even if you could get away with it you re still a fugitive do it nice legal keep your law abiding status send your story into the armed citizen column of american rifleman jason jason u uicvm cc uic edu
