Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!network.ucsd.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u28037
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, academic Computer Center
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 17:46:14 CDT
From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <93108.174614U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: What to do if you shoot somebody
References: <93108.025818U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
 <VEAL.744.735151266@utkvm1.utk.edu>
Lines: 43

In article <VEAL.744.735151266@utkvm1.utk.edu>, VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
says:
>
>In article <93108.025818U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> Jason Kratz                     >
><U28037@uicvm.uic.edu
>
>>I have heard many opinions on this subject and would like to hear more from
>>the people on the net.
>>
>>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)?
>
>       As a data point from Tennessee, a friend of mine and a police
>officer essentially recommends that if you can, fade away.  Even if
>you were perfectly justified you're likely in for a great deal of
>hassle.  (A side note, carrying a gun concealed is a misdemeanor.)
>
This is exactly what I have heard before.  If you were to fade away and
nobody saw you what kind of evidence would they be able to get to catch you
(this is assuming that you either collected your brass or had a revolver)?

>>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?
>
>       It's one of those "by State" things, pretty much.

Guess it's time to take a trip to the library and look at the Illinois statutes
again :-)  Just for the record folks I'm just asking this because I'm curious.
I'm just trying to find out from people who have read more on stuff like this.

>David Veal Univ. of Tenn. Div. of Cont. Education Info. Services Group
>PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu - "I still remember the way you laughed, the day
>your pushed me down the elevator shaft;  I'm beginning to think you don't
>love me anymore." - "Weird Al"

Jason - u28037@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
