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In article <1993Jan27.013749.4218@ncsu.edu> hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer) writes:
#In article <199301252346.AA04775@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com> kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin) writes:
## ...
##That is a very good observation. However, the bottom line of the
##prblem is to decide which one is equal to death, shoot or not-shoot.
##So how do you decide which one is equal to death?
#...
#  However I think that there is a slightly easier question to be
#answered - (assuming NC law in which lethal force may be used only
#to defend people, not property) - "am I (a person of reasonable
#judgement) convinced that I am being seriously threatened with 
#death/severe bodily harm"?

There are a lot of overlapping among these two questions, IMO.
Let me give a most common scenario. After midnight, you wake up
to the sound of break-in. You have the following two choices:

(A) Take out your gun(s), go to the safe room(s), call 911, and then
    shoot the first intruder entering the safe room.
(B) Pretend that you are in your deep sleep and hope ( naively? ) that
    they would just take your stuff and leave.

IMO, there is no way that you would know the intention of the
intruder(s). Choosing option (A) will force you to shoot when you
see the first bad guy. ( Or could that be some law enforcement
people who entered the wrong house? ) 

Guess what I am trying to say is that it is still very difficult
to answer Henry's question. Do we go back to square one?

David 


#  Unless or until the answer is "yes" then don't shoot.  If the
#answer is "yes" then "shoot to stop".  

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