Nobody wants to. Having to shoot someone is only the beginning of the ordeal. Being temporarily arrested and disarmed. Not getting your gun back for years, and possibly in damaged condition. People who were not there armchair quaterbacking your decisions with the luxury of not facing possible death. Civil suits from the thug or their family. Tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Not where states have passed ammended Castle Doctrine laws like Florida. I'm pretty certain the recent Trayvon tragedy isn't going to result in negative backlash on our so called Stand Your Ground defensive laws. Because of this law, the State Attorney is basically barred from bringing a malicious prosecution as would have been normal when Janet Reno was the State Attorney in Miami. Also, any civil suits by decedent's families are also barred in the event the shooting is ruled justified or excused. It's because other states often DON'T have this kind of ammended law on Castle Doctrine that I worry about retiring away from Florida to the place we really would like to live, someplace in the mountains of North Carolina. I live in hope that the Tarheel state will wise up and make their state more gun friendly.
Some people dont think that far. The bullet travels farther than the person you had to shoot and you pointed it out well.
It aint like the movies.