[wvguy]

Does that go the same for cops? IF you run they shouldn’t shot you?

I don't know. Ask a cop. ;-)

What I wish to do differs from what I can legally do. In Virginia, one can NOT use LETHAL force on someone who is fleeing.

[Dead Corpse]

"I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." - Thomas Jefferson

What you can "legally" do is often obfuscated by those we've entrusted to write the laws within the boundaries "We the People" set. Acting outside those limits, law-writers have done a lot to ensure that real justice is denied to the victims of a crime.

While I do not condone the more extreme examples of vigilantism, the victim gunning down the criminal at the point of the offense is the cheapest and most accurate form of Justice ever devised.

Don't want to be gunned down by your intended victim? Don't be a criminal.