This is what I meant to say.Excaliber wrote:
I understand that you're trying to develop your personal plan book for "what do I do if," which is both necessary and commendable for anyone who is preparing to defend himself and his family. However, discussing theoretical incidents in a forum becomes unproductive pretty quickly because there are an infinite number of "what if" scenarios like this that could be posed, and the full fact pattern that is critical to making decisions is never as complete as it is in a real incident. This leads to lots of clarifying questions which can only be answered in the abstract and can throw the decision making either way. That's not what happens in real life. You only get one fact pattern.
In my experience, a much more productive way to approach this effort is to study the laws governing self defense, read the writings of experts in the field (e.g. Mas Ayoob, Clint Smith, Col. Dave Grossman, etc.), take training classes in both legal and tactical defense (e.g. one of Mr. Cotton's excellent Use of Deadly Force classes), study and discuss real life incidents posted here, in books where collections of incidents are analyzed, and in the news where real judgments were made and real outcomes can be examined, and participate in tactical shooting sports.
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