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You're welcome. Try THIS THREAD. I know there are others. It's about 5 or 6 pages long, but there is a lot of good stuff in that addresses your question.

steve817 wrote:Let me open by stating that I hate "what if" scenarios. I am not an aggressive person but in my past I have been in situations that somebody for some reason or another has decided that they wanted to fight me. Sometimes I was able to talk the situation down, while others went to blows. This hasn't happened in many many years, but my deepest fear is that it will happen while I am carrying.

The last thing in the world I want is to be rolling around on the ground with a weapon strapped to my waist.

Has anyone ever been in this situation? What do you do?

I have read over the use of force statutes in the penal code and the topics was glossed over in the CHL class, but still not sure.

If I have put this in the wrong forum, please accept my apology.

Modify your behavior such that you don't find yourself in these situations — which, if you haven't been in a fight in years, it sounds like you already have. Speaking only for myself, I will not allow anyone close enough to grapple with me, or come to blows with me. For cardiovascular and orthopedic reasons, I am unable to defend myself in such a confrontation anyway, so I am going to treat a threat — and by threat, I don't mean the casual use of words, but an actual attempt to attack — of a whuppin' as if it were a threat to my life. I am under no legal or moral restriction against defending myself if I reasonably believe myself to be threatened with physical harm or death. I will do so by whatever means, which is why I carry a gun.

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

Oh, and we have had a couple of similar threads in the last few months. If you use the search function, you should be able to find them.