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u/GinnAdvent Jun 07 '22
From a target shooting perspective, if you want to stop someone that's coming at your or pointing a firearm at you, it's always number 1 rule to shoot center mass. This has been demonstrated multiple times in many scenarios, this is one of the misconceptions that people always tell the police why shoot to kill? Because it's a lot harder to shoot to disable, when they charge you. Go check out videos on how fast people can move from 5, 10, 15 ft before someone can draw and or react.
Even if you don't hit center mass, but extremities instead, you might nick a artery or vein, which will cause bleed out, but again, really hard to do so.
From a self defense perspective, Runkle has covered this multiple times, so say if someone break into your house, you have to have a list of questions checked before you can actually open fire on the guy. Which under stressful situations, is quite hard.
If the perp is looking for stuff to steal, you can't go look for him, and confront him with your firearm to scare him. You can sound the alarm, yell, and go hide or run to safety.
If the perp is coming at your with a stick, hitting things around, you should have similiar thing to go against him, not a firearm, and assume same size. Unless there are multiple perp.
You always have to go to a safe place, and get your love ones to a safe place to call the police. The only time you can fight back, is they caught you and trap you in a corner, or someone on the vicinity is trapped and being attacked by them. Against refer to what tool they use.
If they come with you with deadly weapon, in large force, and won't care to steal anything, and you can't run away or to protect someone about to be harmed, then that's a different story. If you have video recording with sound, and whole interaction is recorded.
One thing people have to understand, self defense is one legal entity of its own, and firearm usage has another own sets of law. When you combine both, it's overly complicated to explain in the court. So it's not like American castle doctrine to protect your property, or someone trespass. You have to series of law and evidence between self def and Firearm to reach a lawful conclusion. No matter how stupid it might be, at least for Canadian scenario. That's why I found it useful to review Ian Runkle videos because he explain it in great detail.
PS: the example provided is a very simplified version, of legal precaution to follow if you are in the court of law to explain yourself, from a self defense perspective. There are probably errors since I am not a lawyer, some things I have observed and compiled from friends who practice self defense and going through the legal process if situistions arises.