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To: wideawake
If I honestly believe that your push is meant to get me off balance or on the ground in order to do me greater harm, then I am justified in using deadly force to stop that greater harm from being inflicted.

So then the decision to shoot you or not shoot you is entirely up to my analysis of the situation? No other guidelines other than what I perceive your intent to be?

117 posted on 06/02/2015 7:12:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
So then the decision to shoot you or not shoot you is entirely up to my analysis of the situation? No other guidelines other than what I perceive your intent to be?

Correct. The legal standard is, and always has been: 'Did you act out of a reasonable fear of serious bodily harm?"

A grand jury may be asked to opine on the reasonableness of your fear, but that's the standard.

This is why it is a bad idea to randomly tackle armed strangers in the middle of the night - they might not always realize that you were just playing a hilarious joke.

118 posted on 06/02/2015 7:23:55 AM PDT by wideawake
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