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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
If the attacker has a deadly weapon, such as a knife, you can respond with a deadly weapon, such as a gun. In many states, you will have to "retreat" if you have the option. Nothing requires you to be a marksman and only hit a limb, though. Take a pistol -- or rifle -- and try to pop a few rounds through a 25-ft. pistol target. It ain't easy. It would be quite a draconian legal requirement to make someone hit specific parts of an assailant's body.
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True, but if you're weird enough to carry around a pistol "just in case" in public in the first place, you'd expect that person to be more than qualified to handle it responsibly, or at least knows how to aim; or perhaps that's just my perception of it. No one is helped by some hack who is as much a danger to the potential victims as he is to assailant.
[ 03-04-2004, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]