<S> Wobble,
The above post wasn't addressed to me, but I hope you and Ripsnort don't mind if I make a quick comment. I believe you if you say that you were afraid for your life in the incident you describe, but there is one more thing that perhaps you havn't considered.
In most states that I'm aware of, citizens have a "duty to retreat" if possible. If you had shot the other driver who was endangering you, you would have had to have shown that you first attempted to retreat from the situation before resorting to deadly force.
In your scenario, you stopped behind the bad guy, pulled your gun, and sped up to him when you could have simply, prudently, turned around or just waited a bit to let him get way ahead. It would have been easy for a prosecutor in that scenario to portray the person you killed as the victim of road rage.
Incidently, if you havn't first tried to retreat from the situation, and you cannot yet legally use deadly force, it follows that you also cannot pull your weapon and point it at the person unless the use of deadly force is appropriate. Pointing a gun at person when deadly force is not appropriate is a crime known in Florida as AGG ASS, or Aggravated Assault. It's serious.
Just my .02, Wobble. I'd hate to see you get jammed up because you didn't know what actually happens when the smoke clears...
Cheers, Gunthr
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[This message has been edited by Gunthr (edited 12-12-2000).]
