[OkieCruffler]

A friend of mine asked me this morning why I don't carry pepper spray to go along with my pistol. I answered that personally, anything that I cosider to be a serious enough threat to use pepper spray on is going to be a big enough threat to warrent the use of my pistol. Quite the lively discussion followed, ending up with about a dozen participants, all of whom were questioning the sanity of every other member. I'm still of the same mind on pepper spray, but I did come away with one new question. If faced by an attacker and you were to decide to use your pistol instead of your pepper spray, what kind of legal problem would this cause. A good lawyer would ask the question, "You had non-lethal means, why didn't you use them first?" I'm sure my buns would be safe in a criminal trial, but as always I'm not sure about a civil case.