Comments on: Shoot to kill

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:16:23 +0000

Pawpaw, I almost concur except warning shots. But you don’t shoot in the leg to stop.

By: PawPaw

PawPaw — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:27:30 +0000

Actually, what I was always taught is that we neither shoot to kill nor wound. We shoot to stop. When you are in a lethal force situation, all you really want is for someone to stop doing something.

Shoot to stop is easily defendable in a Court of Law. If the guy dies and everthing else is equal, then that is his problem. He might ought to have stopped before lethal force became necessary.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:08:02 +0000

In Oklahoma, it very specifically forbids ‘warning’ shots. It basically says, if you’re threatened enough to use lethal force, you’d better not be playing ‘shoot him in the arm’ games.

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:11:14 +0000

Where I’m from “warning shots” and “shooting to wound” is called a miss.

By: SayUncle : Shoot to kill - follow up

SayUncle : Shoot to kill - follow up — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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