I recently spoke with a lady whose daughter had been the victim of an attempted abduction. The daughter was able to repel her attacker, and the mother was able to get a description of the perpetrator and the license-plate number of his vehicle.
A crisis was averted, and thanks to a keen sense of observation on the mother’s part, the criminal will likely be apprehended in short order.
The mother has a license to carry a firearm. In playing the events over in her head, it occurred to her that she might have been justified in using her weapon to hold the man for the police. She asked me about it, and I had to give an honest answer.
Painful as it may be to hear, that answer is an emphatic “no.”