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Originally Posted by Hope Springs Hauler
Try answering the question before posing your own. ;) So are you saying you HAVE had to pull a gun on someone? Unless the answer is yes, I've got you on this one as I have held an intruder on the ground, gun in his face until the cop arrived AND resisted the temptation to end another's life. He broke in the back door of my house.
(The bittersweet conclusion to the story was that the cop lost the guy on the way to the car  Great Lexington PD)
Your belief that the judge or jury's opinion is completely irrelevant had better be backed up by DEEP pockets. It ain't a criminal case I'm worried about; it's the stinking civil case that bothers me. You are also assuming that the intruder IS armed....etc. There are a lot of "if's" to any situation and you seem to be assuming that actually using deadly force is the correct answer immediately instead of taking a split second, assessing the situation and making a decision. I just hope a friend or family member doesn't drop in on you, you kill them and then you have to live with that regret because you didn't pause to assess the situation. |
I sure fell for that one. (i.e. The excuse to inject that stirring tale of your hand gun heroics.) Well, fact of the matter is that I have pulled a gun in self defense after someone broke into our house, but the outcome was nowhere near as dramatic. He fled before I could hold him down and put a gun in his face.
PS,
Thanks for the self-righteous firearm and legal liability lecture, (The "split second, assessing the situation and making a decision" verbiage was especially moving.) but you're about 30 years too late.