On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:28:46 -0500, Richard J Kinch wrote:
Gunner Asch writes:

The criteria, in virtually all jurisdictions, is :

"You must have reasonable cause to belive, that your life, or the life
of another is in immediate danger, before you can employ deadly force"

I assure you, as someone who has drawn several times, and on one occasion
fired, in self-defense, it is far, far more complicated than that.

As with so many other things, specific interpretations vary by state.