Self-Defense Requires Fear Of Death Or Serious Bodily Injury

By Ammoland

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Your Self-Defense Claim, Weak or Strong? Advice to Students of our Art:

The decision to “go armed” should not affect your normal routine. That is, you should not go anywhere, nor do anything while armed, that you would not go, nor do, while unarmed.

When I hear a student say, “Now that I’m armed, I’m less afraid to go to the ‘bad part of town,’” I advise him that he should not be going to the “ bad part of town” in any event, and that going armed should make him more cautious, not less!

This is a point all instructors need to stress. The way we sometimes put it:

“A Superior Gunman is best described as one who uses his superior judgement to keep him out of situations that would require a display of his superior skill!”

Second point:

Legitimate self-defense is generally well established when your decision to defend yourself with gunfire is motivated by fear of death or serious bodily injury to yourself or another innocent person, so long as your fears are authentic and reasonable.

Conversely, your contention of self-defense is always weakened when …read more

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