I believe that if you rob people with your finger in your pocket, it counts as armed robbery. Because the victims don’t know.
And my definition of self-defense is extremely wide. Put the threat down. Way down.
There's a big difference between how I would advise someone to conduct himself while engaged in a defensive shooting, and the sort of conduct of a defensive shooting I would accept as legitimate while serving on a jury. As a juror, I would pretty much consider that if the defender's first shot was legitimate, all other shots were also legitimate. I'm not going to hang a conviction on my fellow citizen for takin' out the trash.
In Texas