They aren’t even necessarily intending to kill. Shooting center mass in a panicked situation against a moving target has the highest likelihood of landing a hit due to center mass being the largest area. There also happens to be a ton of important organs there. You could try to aim for a leg or arm to be non lethal, but if you miss several shots the intruder could close the distance and harm/kill you.
You can kill someone during self defense and still have it not be intentful murder. Some people take 6 rounds to the chest and can walk away from the hospital, some die to 1 shot. An intruder can break their neck and die after falling during a physical struggle, is it fair to say the defender intended to murder them?
I agree with your analysis, point I was making above that the situation like that person defending themselves with int he residence has any and all mean available to them up to and including killing the perp until the perp retreats.
Concept that victim can clearly sort out degree of force necessary to stop the intruder is naive. which is what the commenter is shilling in this thread.
If the person retreats outside, yeah no shit you can’t kill them for funsies… nobody argued that as he seems to think.
They aren’t even necessarily intending to kill. Shooting center mass in a panicked situation against a moving target has the highest likelihood of landing a hit due to center mass being the largest area. There also happens to be a ton of important organs there. You could try to aim for a leg or arm to be non lethal, but if you miss several shots the intruder could close the distance and harm/kill you.
You can kill someone during self defense and still have it not be intentful murder. Some people take 6 rounds to the chest and can walk away from the hospital, some die to 1 shot. An intruder can break their neck and die after falling during a physical struggle, is it fair to say the defender intended to murder them?
I agree with your analysis, point I was making above that the situation like that person defending themselves with int he residence has any and all mean available to them up to and including killing the perp until the perp retreats.
Concept that victim can clearly sort out degree of force necessary to stop the intruder is naive. which is what the commenter is shilling in this thread.
If the person retreats outside, yeah no shit you can’t kill them for funsies… nobody argued that as he seems to think.