On 16 Dec 2003 15:44:32 -0800, (Cathy Weeks)
wrote:

==Ivan Gowch wrote in message . ..
== If the person under attack is, as you say, an "expert
== shot," then he ought to be able to disable the
== assailant with one, or perhaps two, well-placed
== rounds, which might be survivable. Formal police
== training, in fact, teaches that the proper procedure
== is to discharge two quick rounds, aimed at the area
== of largest body mass. With a Glock 40, that should be
== sufficient. If not, then subsequent shots are, of
== course, permissible.
==
==You don't point a gun at someone, unless your intent is to kill them.
==
==If someone is crazed and running at you, two shots in non-lethal areas
==might not be enough to disable them.
==
==The only reason the scenario described might be construed as murder,
==is if they are disabled, and then you go back for more.

Which is exactly what was described in the original
post, and why I responded as I did.


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