Pharmacist Who Shot Robbers, and Shot Them (again) Gets Life.

[fightingquaker13]

Thats the thing. If "He started it and I was afraid he'd come back and kill me" was a defense, every fight would be to the death. There has to be a point where the law of the jungle stops and the law of the land takes over. To me, its when the BG is helpless on the ground.
FQ13

[Solus]

Yeah....

From sometime while I was in High School, I started thinking about this and pretty much came to the conclusion that if I get in a fight I will be fighting like it is to the death.  I didn't get in fights, maybe because I tended to to what I needed to avoid them and maybe because I was 6'2", fast and strong....don't know about how tough I was.

When we consider carrying, we all think about when we will use our weapon in self defense and we pretty much decide it is when there is no other choice, when it is a kill or be killed (or severely injured if you are lucky) situation.  

Each incident where you resort to your weapon has become fight to the death if need be.  Not saying it has to be just that it always starts that way...at least for me it would.

Trick for me is knowing I'll be thinking that way and planning on how to deal with it when the time comes.

[Ichiban]

I've always considered any fight as a potentially life threating situation for me, but not a fight to the death.  That means that I will use any and all means at my disposal to stop my attacker.  If that means he dies, so be it.  If he is stopped before he dies, that's fine too.  If they survive and want a rematch, then that will be a fight to the death.

I've had my life threatened before.  That did not give me the right (legal of moral) to kill them in cold blood because off something they might do.  Mostly is was tough guy talk - but I did believe one or two.

What this guy did was totally without justification.