Originally Posted by
kmart
"Shortening the gene pool"? As logical as your examples of when you would use lethal force have been, after that sentence your logic seems shaky. How about you drop your plans to do the gene pool a service and just leave the guy incapacitated instead of dead? If your life is no longer in danger, why would you choose to kill?
Ooh, I know the answer to this one! (Mod Edit) should be shortened from the gene pool!
(j/k, but my first point is serious)
Sorry a drunken late night post to be certain. Mein frust raus.
I've no plan to do the gene pool any services other than mitigate my own continuation in it if and when possible and threatened. You're over-reading my personal intentions as if I'm interested in unnecessary conflict or desiring more harm than necessary a level of force when protecting myself because I believe my own survival is important.
Whenever given the opportunity to choose between incapacitated and dead I'd always prefer to incapacitate someone as opposed to unnecessarily ending their life. I'm not Stephen Seagul[sic], Jean Claude Vandamn, or Chuck Norris however and so this is very unlikely.
In a contact situation with a life threatening assailant, I can train to protect myself to a certain degree and hope for the best of outcomes which in my case would be multiple priorities distinguished:
1. the continuation with life
2. the continuation of the life of any loved one I'm to protect
3. the safety of any and all innocent bystanders that may inadvertently be exposed to whatever situation is occuring
Only after I can satisfy these 3 variables will the life of the life threatening assailant be something I'm capable of contemplating methods of retaining without re-failling on the above.
The likelihood of doing that in such a high stress situation I don't think many people would be very capable of doing.
You'll find that according to both case law, and thanks to the legal standing and research of our federal law enforcement departments that:
"The only method of reliably stopping a human with a handgun is to decrease the functioning capability of the central nervous system (CNS) and specifically, the brain and cervical spinal cord. There are two ways to accomplish this goal: 1) direct trauma to the CNS tissue resulting in tissue destruction and 2) lack of oxygen to the brain caused by bleeding and loss of blood pressure."
Newgard, Ken, M.D.: "The Physiological Effects of Handgun Bullets: The Mechanisms of Wounding and Incapacitation." Wound Ballistics Review, 1(3): 12-17; 1992.
Short of this, you're likely to be killed yourself.
Which is why I don't CARRY, and instead carry a KNIFE.
I'm guessing you didn't read that post, but it was earlier in this thread.