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Your questions and thoughts are very good and very real. LE personnel around our country are faced with these questions daily and unfortunately, if they make the wrong decision, they can pay with their career and their freedom. I am in a LE role and one big question you can ask yourself if time permints is "Do i feel endangered for my life?" "Am i within the max effective range of his weapon?" How about this, if a small guy is about to be pummeled by a large man or possibly a well trained fighter, Can he pull a weapon and use it? You better belive you can if he is in fear of his life and has beyond a reasonable doubt that he is about to be killed. But your decision to use deadly force better be reasonable under the situation. It is a tough situation and only you can make that decision at the time and just hope and pray it is the right one.
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