Powderman - I think you and Lurper nailed it with
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Know your State's laws concerning the use of deadly force.
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Different states use different "yardsticks" to measure justifications. Like many other states, California does have a "castle doctrine". And I have spoken to lawyers and prosecutors regarding unarmed intruders and in varying degrees their responses are that you show a logical justification that a threat existed. They want to know that you didn't fire "in bare fear", at a shadowy figure in the darkness or at someone fleeing out of the house.
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The one good piece of training was the standard cop use-of-force escalation pyramid model thingy. (BillCA, what's the right name for that?)
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The Escalation of Force Pyramid
Force Continuum Pyramid
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use-of-force escalation pyramid model thingy works too.
Again, the purpose of this thread is to get people to
think in advance about what might happen.