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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 1071868, member: 28550&quot;]Exactly. The law generally doesn&#039;t care if you feel that someone is a threat (or can justify it through some tortuous logic) - the law generally cares what a reasonable person would decide. Wounding an intruder in your house in the dark who may or may not be armed: generally okay. Emptying a clip into someone who has there hands in the air and is shouting &quot;I surrender!&quot;: generally not okay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if a criminal is running away, some have argued that they &quot;had to&quot; shoot the criminal because s/he might be running to fetch a weapon/reinforcements/come back at another time. That argument has had mixed results in court.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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