Police say that because they know. You’ll be paying a lawyer to argue that ‘scared shitless’ should be interpreted to mean that you believed your life was in danger.

How many people get brought up on charges each year because they run their mouth and say something that qualifies as setting a legal condition that they can’t back out of?

Then let the lawyers deal with the talking and keep your mouth shut. If you find yourself in a position where you killed someone in self defense, you shouldn't be talking.

Period

YOU have the right to remain silent. Police asked something, there's one word that you should only really say, and that word is , "Lawyer."

You talk to the lawyer, not the police.

‘Stop the threat’ is hardly a ‘meme’. It’s the underpinning rationale for everything from choosing a caliber, determining when to draw your weapon, aiming for center mass, qualifying appropriate use of force, and more. If you’re not actively stopping a threat to your life or the life of another, the legality of you pointing a weapon becomes vanishingly small.

Another thing people forget is that an attacker can still threaten other people even if they disengage with you, and thus you can believe that their lives are in danger from an identified threat. See how that works?

This is why gun courses always say that you don't draw your weapon unless you plan to end a life. There's no halfway measure. You do it or you don't.

Police say that because they know. You’ll be paying a lawyer to argue that ‘scared shitless’ should be interpreted to mean that you believed your life was in danger.

How many people get brought up on charges each year because they run their mouth and say something that qualifies as setting a legal condition that they can’t back out of?

Then let the lawyers deal with the talking and keep your mouth shut. If you find yourself in a position where you killed someone in self defense, you shouldn't be talking.

Period

YOU have the right to remain silent. Police asked something, there's one word that you should only really say, and that word is , "Lawyer."

‘Stop the threat’ is hardly a ‘meme’. It’s the underpinning rationale for everything from choosing a caliber, determining when to draw your weapon, aiming for center mass, qualifying appropriate use of force, and more. If you’re not actively stopping a threat to your life or the life of another, the legality of you pointing a weapon becomes vanishingly small.

Another thing people forget is that an attacker can still threaten other people even if they disengage with you, and thus you can believe that their lives are in danger from an identified threat. See how that works?

This is why gun courses always say that you don't draw your weapon unless you plan to end a life. There's no halfway measure. You do it or you don't.