It's very easy to get into the weeds and get screwed over where there are good samaritan laws. I have been thinking about getting a concealed license for awhile since I am in Florida so that is my only option but I worry about things like refusing to get involved in a situation where deadly force is required. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't thing if someone other than you is the victim.
Tittums wrote:
I'm not sure that you understand good samaritan laws - they do NOT require lay responders to act.
*If* you do act and:
1. Don't exceed your level of training/ability and
2. Act within reasonable standards and
3. Perform with good intentions
Then you can't be sued for responding/acting.
So let's look at these:
Lay responder -:one who is not required to intervene - sworn law enforcement aren't lay responders.
1. If you try to make an 80 yard shot with your hand gun and hit an innocent, you are probably screwed. I routinely qualify with my handgun at 100 yards, so I can check off this box.
2. Was your intervention reasonable, using the reasonable man standard - would a reasonable man, in the same situation, act as you did?
3. This is pretty straightforward
