The intent of a warning shot is to give a warning come on breh.... And rhetoric about blacks losing guns is a huge tangent unless there's some greater point that I missed. There may not always be a next time. Fight the battle for your permit instead of fighting the battle to stay alive on life support.Losing your guns isn't whatever it's rhetoric like this why they don't want black to have guns and why gun owners and rights in general are threatened.
Secondly what is the intent of a warning shot? How do you properly execute a warning shot. Explain to me a safe and rational time to use a warning shot? Bullets have to go somewhere so tell me, do you shoot straight up in the air? Point the gun up and away from you? Do you shoot the ground?
A gun is not a de-escalation tool. It's a last line of defense .You pull it out to cease an imminent threat by destroying a target. you can argue against legislation but this is how it's written .
Back to warning shots... Its not something you advise nor is it legal. Should you do it, there's steps you take. Communicate, let people know you're armed, create space, reiterate you're armed if able, then fire a shot, then do the business you gotta do - however, this is purely from a military/LE perspective and if that's something you were introduced to in some form then its always gonna make sense to follow those steps. If you want to argue the legality of a warning shot, cool. Won't debate that and never have. The practicality of it in a situation like this? Its legitimate attempt.
Warning shots are explicitly advised against when someone is charging you, etc and the heat is on. There's no place for them *then*. This clearly isn't that kind of case.
And yes, guns are absolutely a deescalation tool. Lethal force and a willingness to use it will make people fall back 9 times out of 10. A last line of defense is.... I don't agree with that. I find it hard to believe that most people would either. When you hold the trump card in a violent situation, you don't wait to use it like Goku. If its about to get crazy and you got a gun on you, all your plans revolve around that gun.
Rather be in jail than be beaten to death with a bat but that's just meVictorious my ass they are going to jail. That ain't a victory. I wouldn't advocate for any coli member to think like that. While your in jail someone may come shoot up your cribs killin your baby mom's or whoever else is up in there.
long term planning is a luxury when you got a fight in front of you