Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
If I'm walking with my wife, and we get surrounded by say, 5 guys, who say they are going to do something, there is pretty much no way I'm going to be able to prevent them from doing whatever they want. In that situation, I have to imagine that I'd enter a state of duress pretty quickly. At what point is a verbal threat from someone enough to engage? If some random dude says something, and only says something, that isn't enough reason to engage in my opinion. If it's 5 dudes, that's an entirely different story. Thoughts?
In my CCW class, it was presented that it's all about the situation. You and your wife, surrounded by 5 guys creates a situation where fear of your and your wife's life is reasonable. Now, if you and 5 buddies walk by some girl getting attacked, it's not reasonable to think you need to use your gun to overpower 1 guy when there's 5 of you. My understanding is if you're out-numbered, you're generally going to be ok to pull the firearm if it becomes necessary. At which point is "necessary" is up to your own discretion.