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Why you ask ? Because if I Joe blow shoot a guy more then 30' away I will need to show in court why I felt the need to use deadly force past the 21' rule . Now for shooting 75' away .
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You will be looked at under the auspices of reasonableness, ie; would a reasonable man do this. The totality of the circumstances are going to be looked at.
Everybody keeps parroting about "The overzealous DA" and the same 4 or 5 cases out of thousands of self defense shootings. Every prosecutor I have ever worked with did not have time for BS cases and would never waste time on a maybe.