I don’t fault the driver for this. Yes, it turns out the aggressor didn’t have a gun, but when someone has forced you off the road in the dark, has announced they have a pistol and is walking towards your vehicle with something in their hand… Sitting in my well-lit office drinking coffee on a Friday morning it’s easy to say he should have done something different, but in the moment, I get it.
But I still don’t see this as a win for the “the right to carry is important to self-defense” crowd. The Uber driver had just finished training as a police officer. I haven’t gone through police training but I assume (I hope) it involves training to deal with situations just like this. Most people don’t have that training. The average joe who just bought a handgun at Wal-Mart and has undergone no training is still probably more likely to shoot themselves in the leg then kill the bad guy.
