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January 7, 2018, 04:37 PM | #101 | |
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When involved in any armed defense shooting or not.
I was in fear of death, I stopped the threat, I want to speak to a lawyer, Then shut up. This gives you time to calm down clear your thoughts, so what comes out of your mouth is what you actually did. Immediacy after your brain is racing at 1,000 miles an hour but your mouth can only go 100 miles an hour so your words won't come out correctly
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ANY lawyer worth their salt would easily be able to defend a “headshot.” It has already been done successfully. The reality is...if asked why you “shot for the head,” I think you should have an idea for what your reply should be. “It was center mass at the time. If I didn’t he would have killed me.” “It was the most viable option at the time. If I didn’t he would have killed me.” “I had to end the threat. If I didn’t he would have killed me.” “We were in close proximity and that was the first place viable target that I was able to aim at and I could not waste time or else he would have killed me.” Nothing says where you can and cannot shoot. And if you feared for your life... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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In teaching people to shoot, who where to be employed as Security armed people, or Police. My shooting test was 20 rounds, the last two rounds, were centre head. From close up.
The closest big City Police, Toronto Canada. Informed me if one of my students employed a headshot, they would be charged with murder, me too! For teaching this method. That was when I started my School. In 1980. Toronto PD started teaching headshots in 2004! The 15 seconds (or so) of total mobility, after a shot to the heart gives a really good reason for a head shot. Having an attorney on call (NRA Insurance) is a good thing. |
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January 11, 2018, 11:16 AM | #107 |
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Shoot to stop the threat...if it comes to the point where you're forced to discharge a firearm at someone it's doubtful you'll care about shot lacement as long as you stop them.....you could argue that a head shot is more humane.....no chance of suffering.
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From an argument based purely on what a perspective juror might see if the person you are forced to use deadly force against testifies if he or she should survive (or the crime scene photos if he or she does not) I'm fairly certain head shots may offer a distinct disadvantage. Right or wrong a good share of our criminal justice system is based on perception. |
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But a well-represented defendant will bring in expert witnesses who will credibly explain, and introduce convincing evidence to the effect that, in most circumstances in a defensive shooting, the fact that a bullet may have stuck someone in the head does not indicate that the shooter necessarily intend ed for it to do so. |
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January 11, 2018, 09:55 PM | #112 |
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Good luck asserting an affirmative defense while pleading the 5th
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January 11, 2018, 11:21 PM | #113 |
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The really sad part about all of this is, even if you're 100% right in your actions legally, ethically and morally, it's likely to cost you some serious $$$$ for the legal system to agree.
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If you need some sort of justification for yourself for head shots, think of it this way: a predatory animal is attacking you; (a bear) what are you going to shoot at? The head, it will shut down the attack the fastest. Knowing that the average carry handgun is 1/3-1/5 as powerful as a rifle, makes you sure you must shoot the CNS to stop the attacking animal. Sorry if that target is your face.
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January 12, 2018, 06:35 AM | #117 | |
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My though on ethics and legality are about the same as the rules of war. If you have someone shooting at you rules and legality be damned, they are out the window.
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If a predatory animal is attacking me, a charging animal of any sort, which is what I take you to be saying, i'm going to shoot for the chest.
A predatory animal still has a brain the size of a grapefruit and a body the size of a compact car. The idea of bobbing my croshairs around trying to put that round between his angry red eyes is never going to even enter my mind, I'm going to put my crosshairs into the center of that things chest and fire as soon as I get on target. I can probably get two or three rounds into its chest in less time than I would take to miss his head twice. The story of old Eddie 'flapjack' von fleming, the african hunter is interesting. He made a head shot at an angry elephant and missed. An elephant's brain is not much larger than a human's, and hidden behind that great big head. The heart is about three times or more larger than the brain, and any shot at the heart is still in the area of other organs and nerve systems, as well as necessary bones. There just isn't any good reason to attempt a head shot on a predator of any sort. without trying every other possible means first, and even then, it's possible, if not probable, that repeating the same shots several more times would be a more effective thing than to give up after firing two shots at the chest and attempting to shoot the head? I have sometimes wondered, what if you miss the first two shots? what if you can't tell if you hit on the first two shots? Do you yell at the bad guy and ask him if you got him?
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January 12, 2018, 10:46 AM | #122 |
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Pleading the 5th after a SD shooting doesn't sound very smart to me, seeing as how doing so is perceived as a tactic of those with something to hide.
As for Miranda.....I can see limiting what you'd say to the police until you could speak with an attorney, but invoking your right to remain silent seems to me would easily result in you being arrested on the spot. The cops show up, find a dead person whom you have shot, ask you what happened, and you say you're going to remain silent? Um, yeah....you'll leave them with no choice but to arrest you. |
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That's why you have an attorney. Plead the Fifth. Let your attorney tell your story. That's why you hired the guy/gal.
YOU, do not have to testify. --Wag--
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