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If you use a 12-ga to stop a home invader, did you use excessive force, when a 20-ga would have done the same job? I've only heard of one case in which the caliber (power) of the weapon had any bearing on a conviction, and that was the Harold Fish case in AZ, whose conviction was recently overturned.
No matter what type of weapon you use, it can always be argued that you used excessive force, or that you selected the weapon for malicious purposes. A good defense attorney will easily counter any such arguments.
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Violence is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and valorous feeling which believes that nothing is worth violence is much worse. Those who have nothing for which they are willing to fight; nothing they care about more than their own craven apathy; are miserable creatures who have no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the valor of those better than themselves. Gary L. Griffiths (Paraphrasing John Stuart Mill)
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