when I took my concealed weapons course, and Arizona is a no retreat state, all this is, or is suppose to be explained to you. Not everyone is the same size, if Mike Tyson comes up to you and says he is gonna beat you to death with his bear hands, and you feel that he is capable of it, and assaults you, then you have every legal right to defend your self with deadly force. You can be all macho and go toe to toe with him, the result will probably be he wins, and with his size and strength, he may be able to kill or seriously injure you just by punching you...
but if some little guy says that to you and you and bigger and stronger, you would have less of a case of using deadly force if all you had to do was push him down and he runs away.
now if a girl is walking to her car and a bunch of guys surround her, and she feels they are going to harm her, she has the right to pull her stuff and open up on them.
the thing is to use common sense, if someone hits you and walks away, they are no longer a threat, you call the police.. It was also made really clear, that if you start something with someone, you better not pull out your gun. You cannot start an altercation and then assume you can just pull out a gun if it does not go your way. A gun is for self defense.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
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I am a former Marine, so my definition of self defense means the other person is armed with some kind of weapon that can create "great bodily harm".
Sorry, but you shouldn't be able to use deadly force when someone punches you. That's overkill. And killing.
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