hugo asked:


Well we all know here in Britain how stupid your firearms laws are. I am off to Vegas sometime in July and have heard that many people openly carry guns there. I want to know, even though it is legal in most parts of America to carry a gun, in what circumstances can a person actually use the gun and not go to jail for it? If a person is engaged in a fight and happens to be losing the fight, can he pull out his gun and shoot the other guy? If you are a shop owner and you catch someone stealing from the shop, can you pull out the gun and shoot them? I also wanted to know, if a person runs from the police can the police shoot them? I always remember hearing a story of a drunken Scottish man on holiday in Vegas who, after discovering he was lost after a night out on his way back to the hotel, he knocked on someones back door, and the home owner, thinking he was a burglar, shot him dead.