SteveB wrote:
"Tom Quackenbush" wrote


If someone attacked you with a baseball bat and all you had with
which to defend yourself was a pistol, you're not allowed to shoot
the guy?

R,
Tom Q.

The training I received in three CCF classes is that you pretty much
have to let them beat the **** out of you, and then the last thing
you do before you pass out is start shooting. You either have to be
dying, or fear that you will die, and there has to be a substantial
threat that you WILL die.
That still won't clear you from all legal entanglements and civil
lawsuits, but at least you will have some measure of defense.

Sad but true.

Steve
A baseball bat in the hands of an attacker IS a lethal weapon and as such
every jurisdiction that I am aware of (including Canada) allows for lethal
force to counter the attack.

Ken.