I really don't know where/how people come up with some of their absurd and wildly wrong notions about the laws associated with the use of force in self defense.
dakota223 said:
...one things for certain, if you draw your weapon your gonna have to use it....
Nope, studies have shown that most defensive gun uses are successful without a shot being fired.
dakota223 said:
...When you pull that firearm your guilty right at that moment! You have to prove you felt for your life...
Guilty of what?
Yes, by displaying your firearm in a threatening manner (let alone firing it), you have at least committed the act that is the material element of the crime of at least brandishing, and perhaps even assault with a deadly weapon. But as far as being guilty goes, that depends on whether you can establish your defense, i. e., that your display of lethal force was justified.
To do so, in most jurisdictions and under most circumstances you will need to be able to establish that a reasonable person in like circumstances, and knowing what you know, would have concluded that lethal force was necessary to prevent otherwise unavoidable, immediate death or grave bodily injury to an innocent. If your can establish that your display, threat or use of lethal force was justified, you are not guilty.
dakota223 said:
...when you fire that pistol off do what it takes to put the person down for good...
No, you shoot to stop the threat. That is what matters. If your attacker breaks off the attack your legal justification for using lethal force ends, even if your attacker is still breathing. If your attacker stops and is still alive, if you finish him off, you have committed murder.
dakota223 said:
...if you aim to wound it will be you on trial!...
You might wind up on trial in any event. But in any case, one does not shoot to wound. One shoots to stop.
dakota223 said:
...And the prosecutors first question will be if you feared so much for your life, why didnt you aim to kill?
Do you have any evidence that has actually ever happened?
One does not shoot to wound. One does not shoot to kill. One shoots to stop.