Reply #45: "Why not shoot the guy when a chance arose"?

[Euromutt]

Do you have any basis for this conjecture except your over-active imagination? Anyone who's put even a modicum of effort into learning about self-defense with firearms knows that even a shooting that was unequivocally justified is going to come with a serious amount of attendant hassle: you're going to be at least detained by the police while they try to establish what happened, you may have to live through some uncertainty of whether the local prosecutor is going to indict you (and even more if he does, not ot mention incurring legal expenses etc.), and that's assuming you're cold-blooded enough that fatally shooting another human being isn't going to affect you psychologically. With all these risks in mind, who in his right mind would even draw, let alone aim and discharge, his firearm unless he genuinely felt it was necessary?