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Well this is nice to see.

Seems like this thread is going in a positive direction. In that I mean a legal direction. Under the law in most places you have only the right to use adequate force to protect yourself.

But when the attack is broken off one legally cannot then just finish the attacker off.

This is something that gets a whole lot of people in felony trouble every single day. I even had a friend that went through it. You get into an altercation... things escalate... next thing weapons are involved and someone goes down or tries to just flee.

You will be arrested almost every time if it can be proven the person you shot was down without a gun or fleeing. The attack was broken off... the authorities will say there was no longer an imminent threat and you were no longer in imminent danger.