Shooting a person in the head when he is down after shooting him twice in the center mass shows that you are not only skilled enough to stop an assailant in self defense, but that you are so skilled that you put an unnecessary shot to the head to finish the assailant off. Show me a jury who won't see that when the prosecution team tells them this.
You have already managed to put the guy at a serious disadvantage and continuing the attack in that same manner will obviously cause even greater damage. But through deliberate choice and great effort you wasted the guy in what could be seen as cold blooded murder of a helpless individual who may or may not have needed that degree of force.
The word of law can only go so far. there is civil liability. Will you lose in the law suit to follow? will prosecution decide that your self defense was nothing but a lame excuse to kill someone who posed a threat of some sort.
that is My sincere belief, based on the idea that chaos rules the entire world, that the worst that can possibly happen sometimes does, that no matter who you are and what you do, things go absolutely to hell more times than we believe.
Your actions are yours to own. Shoot the bad guys in the head, kill the bejeesus out of them, There may be serious, painful repercussions if you do, and they will happen because of your own actions. Unless you are a high level LEO, swat, commando, putting a bullet into the head of a "bad guy" will not be the great idea that armchair commandos and mall ninjas say it is. You are a civilian, for the love of god, not a navy seal, and the guy you shoot isn't a crazed zombie.
You have already managed to put the guy at a serious disadvantage and continuing the attack in that same manner will obviously cause even greater damage. But through deliberate choice and great effort you wasted the guy in what could be seen as cold blooded murder of a helpless individual who may or may not have needed that degree of force.
The word of law can only go so far. there is civil liability. Will you lose in the law suit to follow? will prosecution decide that your self defense was nothing but a lame excuse to kill someone who posed a threat of some sort.
that is My sincere belief, based on the idea that chaos rules the entire world, that the worst that can possibly happen sometimes does, that no matter who you are and what you do, things go absolutely to hell more times than we believe.
Your actions are yours to own. Shoot the bad guys in the head, kill the bejeesus out of them, There may be serious, painful repercussions if you do, and they will happen because of your own actions. Unless you are a high level LEO, swat, commando, putting a bullet into the head of a "bad guy" will not be the great idea that armchair commandos and mall ninjas say it is. You are a civilian, for the love of god, not a navy seal, and the guy you shoot isn't a crazed zombie.