I feel this is lawsuit generated. If a person intends to do you harm and you stop him with no deadly force then quite often the person who did the stopping gets into far more trouble than the assailant. Your live is torn apart all because you stopped someone from beating your wife, yourself, your kid, whatever. So they feel the best thing to do is to shoot to kill. Messed up, isn't it? The above is all when someone is using deadly force AGAINST the people I mentioned, not just smacking them with a fly-swatter, etc.

So.... in a sue happy country where many times the criminals have more rights and sympathy than the victim, you are instructed to sway the numbers in your direction.

Who is to blame for all of that is a conversation which goes in many circles and in the end people are going to believe what they want instead of what they see. You do that, I do that, others do it as well and each is sure they are believing what they are seeing and are seeing what is reality.