20 Sep
2013
20 Sep
'13
9:12 a.m.
Rick Moen wrote:
In California, weapons (not just firearms) may be used in self-defence only when a person has a reasonable belief he/she is in imminent danger of his/her life or grave injury, the amount of force that can be used must be proportionate to the threat, and deadly force may be used only while the imminent danger to one's life or of grave injury is ongoing and cannot persist after that threat ends.
With hilarious results (FL, not CA): http://loweringthebar.net/2013/09/lousy-war-on-terror-arguments.html (Thanks to JWZ, from whom I found that blog.)