--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary L. Nunn wrote: > > > >My opinion: I am a bit torn on this one. I am > absolutely in favor or > >self defense, especially in the home, but he did > have an unlicensed gun > >in New York. But I am annoyed that the burglar was > let go on probation > >(the first time) and now the dad is facing jail > time for self defense. > > > The rule of thumb is: if you have to shoot someone > in self-defense, > shoot to kill, and make the body disappear.
I was told, by sources that shall remain nameless, that you shoot *until the assailant stops attacking you* - which coincidentally happens when they're dead.
That is what police are taught to do. With a modern semi-automatic, like a Glock, frex, that essentially means emptying the entire magazine, because it takes less time to squeeze the trigger fifteen (.40-cal) or seventeen (9mm) times than it takes a mortally wounded person to fall to the ground from a standing position.
[BTW, this is why the innocent man -- sorry, I can't recall his name at the moment -- in NYC was shot 40+ times by police: they had been taught to keep firing until the person they were firing at was on the ground and no longer a threat, so all 4(?) officers basically emptied their magazines into him.]
-- Ronn! :)
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