Read a suggestion I found interesting, both for legal and "distance-advantage" in self-defense incident requiring you to shoot: shoot once- any indication of pause/shock in perps activity - run like hell. I would add: shoot, run - turn after 3 or 4 sec., gun up, ready to go: if no pursuit or felon is down, keep running and repeat process while calling 911 until a good distance away (informing 911 where you are of course).
This seems to have distinct advantage over firing repeatedly: it's easy for a DA or other legal antagonist to paint your repeated shots as violating the basic purpose of legal, lethal self-D: only to stop and attack, not to kill. And a obvious question would be, "why didn't you stop shooting after the first shot to see if the attack had stopped, instead of hitting him three more times and killing him?" Running really paints the picture of a non-aggressive victim, just trying to survive - which is what we are in such an incident.
The other advantage would be immediate distance if there was a continuation, time to aim, to take evasive action, whatever, where 6' away leaves no time for such preparation.
This obviously would not be the way to go if perp's weapon was a gun. Too dicey and wounded people can still shoot, but any attack with any weapon in which perp needed to be phyiscally close to the victim to use it, seems like "shoot and run" might be a good move.
Thoughts?
This seems to have distinct advantage over firing repeatedly: it's easy for a DA or other legal antagonist to paint your repeated shots as violating the basic purpose of legal, lethal self-D: only to stop and attack, not to kill. And a obvious question would be, "why didn't you stop shooting after the first shot to see if the attack had stopped, instead of hitting him three more times and killing him?" Running really paints the picture of a non-aggressive victim, just trying to survive - which is what we are in such an incident.
The other advantage would be immediate distance if there was a continuation, time to aim, to take evasive action, whatever, where 6' away leaves no time for such preparation.
This obviously would not be the way to go if perp's weapon was a gun. Too dicey and wounded people can still shoot, but any attack with any weapon in which perp needed to be phyiscally close to the victim to use it, seems like "shoot and run" might be a good move.
Thoughts?
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