If it is a viable and necessary strategy, and that includes considerations for what the law will say later and what might be behind the walls if I am using a projectile weapon. If I can't contemplate at that level I don't deserve to have the weapon. I would not be opposed to mandatory and regular/annual competence assessments either, and if medics can yank my driving license then I see no reason why they can not call for a disarming either.
Castle doctrine, stand your ground and other such things are bollocks concepts from where I sit. In civilian life your first duty in such situations is a duty of retreat and de escalation. If someone breaks in and is wandering out the door with both hands on my TV and is not in a position to break my TV on my head or those heads of someone I care about I would have to seriously hesitate before raising my weapon (sul might be acceptable, low ready possibly makes you a cowboy and some of the "modified" versions are right out, holding it next to your temple is cool if you are James Bond but you are probably not James Bond), let alone discharging it. We could possibly debate the disciplines you want to use vis a vis the safety, my leaning is towards secondary movement or even last moment but simultaneously as you raise it is not wholly unacceptable. Whether I would want to effect a citizen's arrest I do not know.
Contrary to what I might be implied to say elsewhere there are fates worse than death, especially if you consider lost potential as one of those -- some actually good (by local/regional standards anyway) football playing types thought they might have a game of start on the long haired/skateboarder type guys not long before trials (there is no such thing as a sure thing in those situations but it was as good as gets for them). Suffice it to say I didn't play nice with tendons and last I saw one was 26 and working a zero hours contract in a shop.
Similarly I know how easy it is to cause very serious head injuries and internal bleeding/haemorrhaging with basic martial training. I have not had to seriously clench a fist in a few years at this point, however it was something of an abstract logic rather than innate one last time I did. I don't feel bad if I have to, just empty. Nobody has ever seriously pulled something sharp on me, other than a dog once being set on me (still have the scars from that one).
I would be content to go the rest of my days with no more action than a sparring session (competition does nothing for me as far as competing goes) and never having to know. No chance* of me ever joining a military/mercenary or police force (I like thinking and my "superiors" are always something to be questioned) so I would never have to know there either.
*including conscript, crisis and convict.
Castle doctrine, stand your ground and other such things are bollocks concepts from where I sit. In civilian life your first duty in such situations is a duty of retreat and de escalation. If someone breaks in and is wandering out the door with both hands on my TV and is not in a position to break my TV on my head or those heads of someone I care about I would have to seriously hesitate before raising my weapon (sul might be acceptable, low ready possibly makes you a cowboy and some of the "modified" versions are right out, holding it next to your temple is cool if you are James Bond but you are probably not James Bond), let alone discharging it. We could possibly debate the disciplines you want to use vis a vis the safety, my leaning is towards secondary movement or even last moment but simultaneously as you raise it is not wholly unacceptable. Whether I would want to effect a citizen's arrest I do not know.
Contrary to what I might be implied to say elsewhere there are fates worse than death, especially if you consider lost potential as one of those -- some actually good (by local/regional standards anyway) football playing types thought they might have a game of start on the long haired/skateboarder type guys not long before trials (there is no such thing as a sure thing in those situations but it was as good as gets for them). Suffice it to say I didn't play nice with tendons and last I saw one was 26 and working a zero hours contract in a shop.
Similarly I know how easy it is to cause very serious head injuries and internal bleeding/haemorrhaging with basic martial training. I have not had to seriously clench a fist in a few years at this point, however it was something of an abstract logic rather than innate one last time I did. I don't feel bad if I have to, just empty. Nobody has ever seriously pulled something sharp on me, other than a dog once being set on me (still have the scars from that one).
I would be content to go the rest of my days with no more action than a sparring session (competition does nothing for me as far as competing goes) and never having to know. No chance* of me ever joining a military/mercenary or police force (I like thinking and my "superiors" are always something to be questioned) so I would never have to know there either.
*including conscript, crisis and convict.
It gets more complex than that. The introduction of "less lethal" has actually seen a rise in their use. Afraid I will have to be the guy that links a ted talk today
