Has anybody here actually had to use their weapon?

[stevelkinevil]

Ok not exactly what the OP was getting at in asking as I was an LEO in Vegas at the time and I was moonlighting as a loss prevention agent at the time but one of the oddest encounters I have had none the less and the only one in plain clothes carrying concealed (we werent supposed to carry but they looked the other way for moonlighting LEOs). So anyway I had been lurking around doing my job in the Smiths (same as King soopers here) which was in North Las Vegas in a nasty part of town and had to use the restroom, I open the door and I see a man standing in the middle of the floor, not even in a stall, holding up his "twig and berries" with one hand and shooting himself up with what I later found to be methamphetamine with the other hand, IN HIS NACHO (or taint if you prefer)!!!. I was about 6 feet away from the guy and wasnt about to get stabbed with a god knows what tainted needle so I drew my carry gun which was a Walther P99 (used a 1911 on duty) and advised him to drop the needle, the dumb bastard, who didn't realize I was there till this point, raises the needle and takes a step forward, thank gawd he dropped it and complied from that point on because my finger had taken up all the travel on the DA trigger. Would I have been justified in shooting him? you better believe it, at that range and with what could be considered a deadly weapon raised I would have been OK. Scary part is if he had wanted to continue that attack nothing but a well placed head shot likely would have stopped him at that range.