The bottom line is that there is no right "if this than that answer." If all depends on being able to articulate why a reasonable person would have concluded that lethal force is necessary to prevent otherwise unavoidable, immediate death or grave bodily to an innocent.
But I think this has gone about as far as it can go.
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