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To: man_in_tx
I'm not saying that if you fire a warning shot in downtown Dallas because a mugger was coming after you with a knife and said "I dare you to shoot me" when you pulled out your weapon, but you couldn't bear to kill the 14 year old punk without giving him some chance to run away, that you wouldn't be found not guilty at trial.

What I am saying is that you will correctly be charged, go to trial, and suffer tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees by doing so, just as the subject of this thread is going to go through.

Look at the Zimmerman case and all he has gone through for what should have been simple matter of a justifiable defense of his life.

No sir, as for me and mine, the gun stays in the holster until I feel my life is threatened. Then and only then does it comes out, and if the threat doesn't end when it sees me pointing my weapon at him/her, I shoot for center of mass until the threat stops. The warning was my screaming "STOP!" as I drew my weapon.

35 posted on 06/02/2013 9:26:06 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

No sir, as for me and mine, the gun stays in the holster until I feel my life is threatened. Then and only then does it comes out, and if the threat doesn’t end when it sees me pointing my weapon at him/her, I shoot for center of mass until the threat stops. The warning was my screaming “STOP!” as I drew my weapon.
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Well articulated position. Rightly or wrongly (and, I believe it is the latter), one will in all likelihood be sued to (financial) death — a risk not worth taking for most.


36 posted on 06/02/2013 9:40:16 AM PDT by man_in_tx (Islam is a Hate Crime. (Blowback: Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily!))
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