Escalation Of Force And Self-Defense

[Oldmountaiman]

Seems I was taught to hit harder to end the fight, otherwise it's just a bitchfight, I'd rather not go 10 rounds.

Last time I was attack was by 3 punks in France, I was 26 in the Army, unarmed except for my belt and an ink pen, they lost, one guy lost his knife, one left by ambulance. Now, one real attack in 75 years, odds are, it won't happen again. I work out daily but I'm not close to what I use to be, which is why I started carrying.

Hopefully, I'll never need it, sometimes I ask myself if I'm getting paranoid as I get older????

Then, in SW Missouri (Springfield, Greene County) 2 LEOs were lost yesterday afternoon and another wounded, a bad guy shot them from a traffic stop and the manhunt was on, within a couple hours the bad guy was down and gone.

Things really are getting worse......

Use of force cases are decided using the reasonable man standard. Would a reasonable man believe the force was reasonable and necessary? The laws and their interpretation vary from state to state and you have to know the law where you are. The tricky part is, individual views of what is reasonable and necessary vary greatly. Thank goodness in Florida the law is pretty clear and immunity from prosecution and civil suit protects you if the use of force is within the law.

I'm a lot over 70 and I keep my DNR in a neck wallet. As the song says "I'm not as good as I used to be but I'm better than I'll ever be one more time" and I will cheat. I still get up around 4:30 every morning and work out about 2 hours almost every morning. It seems when I must go to the village I find that courtesy and respect has declined, both my wife and I are disabled and my wife carries a concentrator and I am on crutches but mostly use a cane. That's what today is. Que sera