Texas used to have an interesting take on this. If a spouse came home and found their spouse in bed with someone, if they shot one or the other it was premeditated murder. But if they shot them both, they could use the “heat of anger” defense for a lesser manslaughter charge.
I actually knew a man who answered and advertisement in a singles newspaper, and went to a woman’s apartment not knowing she was married. Her husband came home, and shot the man eight times with a .25 caliber handgun, including three right through the navel.
He was only in the hospital for a couple of weeks, and I later saw him at the gym, covered in entrance and exit wounds, exercising.
At that point, I swore I would never own a .25.
.25’s are essentially contact weapons and “get off me” guns - and used in that context are quite effective.
LMAO on the .25 cal story!!!!
“Whether to shoot someone once is a moral and legal question. How many times to shoot them, is a tactical question.”
I can’t believe someone could actually hit someone 8 times with a .25.
I assisted in a homicide investigation where the so called victim was shot twice with a .25. Once in the finger and once in the chest. He was deader than a door nail.
Guru says: “If carrying a ‘mouse gun’ comforts you, do so. But do not load it. For if you load it, you may find reason to fire it. And if you fire it, you may strike someone, and thus annoy them and give them reason to cause you great harm.”
- Jeff Cooper