slackmaster
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Fri Sep-23-05 02:42 PM
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| 13. The point is your life may be over if you use deadly force |
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Edited on Fri Sep-23-05 02:43 PM by slackmaster
Even if you are morally justified in a self-defense situation, you put yourself at risk of going to jail, being financially ruined, getting run out of town by people who were friends or family of the person you used force on. You could even become the target of a revenge killing.
Laws on when deadly force is justified vary widely from state to state. In order to keep things simple, in the class I took last year we were taught that if you have any doubt that deadly force is justified in a particular situation the answer is always "No".
You use deadly force to protect things as precious as life itself, i.e. your own life or the life of a loved one.
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