Thread: Support for tighter Acat storage

Hypothetical situation here

If I was to be driving down the road and saw a group of youths going to town on a young girl with baseball bats and one was getting a machete from the car, would it be within my rights to pull a rifle or pistol from my car that was there with legal intentions (wife calls cops I'm the mean time) and I take the time to load the rifle and threaten them to no avail... proceed to take a pot shot or two to try to scare them off to no avail... And then finally shoot the guy with the machete centre of mass as a show of force because I truly believed the woman would die. Would this not still be use of excessive force as i had a gun while they had bats/machete? Is that not the same as the cop shooting the guy who had a hammer?

No intentions to point fingers at the police here, Just curious.