The USCCA is only advising you defend yourself. Are you looking at this through the lenses of a police officer with qualified immunity or are you looking through this with the lenses of an ordinary citizen with their conceal carry license, that is subject to criminal and civil litigation?
The USCCA is only advocating for you to defend yourself, and protecting you legally. The court system is one that even if you win, you lose.
Tom Grieve has stated over and over the amount of phone calls that’s he gotten from family members, and the tremendous cost of defending yourself, which is your family tearing apart.
Their best advice is if you can avoid getting into a gun fight, DO SO!
Chasing a suspect down, only increases your chance of getting hurt, we’re not trained to chase after somebody and gun them down.
When Grieve asks how many times you pulled the trigger, he’s trying to make them realize, when you answer that question you may be wrong, and when it comes to questioning they’ll spend hours asking you over and over and your stories can change slightly every time. He stated that he’s had clients not remember the street they were on at the time of the incident.
Now we have to think of civil litigation, maybe in the criminal trial, you were justified, but in the civil trial in civil court, the family has plead the case since he was running away, the threat has ended, and that one shot in the back caused a series of medical problems, or that last shot contributed to this man’s death. Which has now possibly costed this family’s lost in financial support, increase in the families mental health cost, funeral expenses, and whatever they may claim.
You can win the criminal trial, and then lose everything in the civil trial, because criminally you may not have done anything wrong, but civilly you may have.
I wouldn’t call it fear mongering, but if you’re not afraid of the legal system, and everything after it and remain clueless you shouldn’t be carrying a gun. You’re the ones that makes all of us look bad. You did something you thought was justified, but it wasn’t.
To understand the USCCA, and their training, you have to understand their mission.
As a civilian, your mission is to get home to your family, so the idea is prioritized to make it where you leave alive, out of jail, with as much as a minimal cost as possible.
To be added: Your questions are about the person, who was attacked by the trainee, and other people in the area. Does the trainee have any kind of legal duty to protect the man on the couch? He doesn’t.
The man on the couch put himself in that position, and he will also be singly judged by his actions.