I'm not going to bother commenting on the inaccurate statements in this post however gun laws changed over the course of 40 years. You can shoot someone 10 times and they can still pose a threat if they are still coming for you. In fact, there was a story of a LEO with a Glock .45 (forgot which model) that shot a man about 10-12 times with is .45 until the last shot was fired into the mans head, killing him. Both .45s and 9mm penetrate skin and bone, both are more than enough for SD. Only thing is that a 9mm offer more ammo than a .45. Its better to have it and not need it.
Marcus, I am sure you feel yourself correct. My question to you is are you courts testifying in criminal cases almost every week? How often do you work for weeks with both defense and prosecution attorneys? How many hours daily do you spend going over the law books? How many jury selections have you sat through?
My life is just filled with the aforementioned things. and not just in one state but four. There are plenty of jailhouse lawyers saying people cannot be sent to jail for something as they sit next to that person. Others say the law allows for certain things and it does not.
I have had homicide cases that could not be lost but they were. I have had defense cases that was all but a done deal, even with the accused paying an attorney tens of thousands of dollars and then they still go to prison.
Go on and put ten rounds in someone. You will have a difficult time convencing a jury that you had to fire that many rounds. You will have a hard time following a medical doctor testifying that a person hit multiple times is still a major threat. This all assumes you got past the wrong place, wrong time, "who slapped John" and other situations that puts people in jails.
We have a petite lady locally that was being beat by a large 17 yr old "youth." She pulled a paring knife and stabbed him once. That lady sits in jail right now waiting someone to go her bond for stabbing someone that was on top of her, in public, during a beatdown. She cannot afford to make bail, much less hire a defense attorney.
Unless a person has been there, they will never understand what I am speaking of. I can only hope they never find themselves using the force they are prepared to use while thinking it is legal. There is no blanket laws that allows for everything to be legal.
