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mehavey · May 23, 2014, 11:47 AM

Good grief...

If in imminent fear of grievous bodily harm to yourself or others -- and you cannot safely retreat (home excluded):

- Use the weapon most available/likely to immediately stop that threat
- A shotgun* is nice, but unwieldly in tight spaces
- A 22 pistol is not particularly effective in immedately stopping** an imminent threat, but may be all you have.
- Center mass aimpoint into whatever is exposed, repeated until the threat is neutralized***
- Never be so presumptuous as to shoot to wound/maim. If you are in imminent threat of another's use of deadly force, do not fool around****

* 00-Buck to slug preferably. But if a skeet load is all you have, that's all you have.
** Unless a CNS shot
*** Goes down, flees, drops his weapon and does not approach further, "is out of action" etc
**** This includes deliberate/pre-mediated blinding actions -- of whatever type/source/weapon -- unless that is all that is exposed to you

May 23, 2014, 11:47 AM	#69
mehavey Senior Member Join Date: June 17, 2010 Location: Virginia Posts: 6,886	Good grief... If in imminent fear of grievous bodily harm to yourself or others -- and you cannot safely retreat (home excluded): - Use the weapon most available/likely to immediately stop that threat - A shotgun* is nice, but unwieldly in tight spaces - A 22 pistol is not particularly effective in immedately stopping an imminent threat, but may be all you have. - Center mass aimpoint into whatever is exposed, repeated until the threat is neutralized* - Never be so presumptuous as to shoot to wound/maim. If you are in imminent threat of another's use of deadly force, do not fool around**** * 00-Buck to slug preferably. But if a skeet load is all you have, that's all you have. Unless a CNS shot * Goes down, flees, drops his weapon and does not approach further, "is out of action" etc **** This includes deliberate/pre-mediated blinding actions -- of whatever type/source/weapon -- unless that is all that is exposed to you Last edited by mehavey; May 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM.