I periodically run through scenarios with the wife so she doesn't have to do any heavy thinking to react in a way to protect herself from bad guys and/or LEOs if she ever finds herself in a situation....if it's a bad guy and she feels the need to shoot - it's keep firing into center mass - and follow the perp down to stay on center mass - until the slide locks back and then pop in the spare mag before checking to see if she has need for further action...and to make sure the weapon isn't in her hand when "help" arrives...let them know where the weapon is, status of being loaded, and keep her hands shoulder high throughout w/o reaching for it and let them remove it from her possession.
No other statements w/o a lawyer present.
I do the same thing...my wife is not necessarily a 2nd Amendment person, though her father and brothers all had firearms...and when I ponder these kinds of things, she doesn’t appear to understand why I think about them. I can work with that...it isn’t a prerequisite for me that she knows or understands.
I have no idea how I am going to respond if I am ever in a situation where I have to use a firearm. I have never been in combat more than a non-deadly physical struggle with someone, but I hope to God that if my life or the life of someone else depends on my actions...I can do what is needed.
But who ever knows in advance how they will respond.
But when I read about these situations here on FR, I make sure to think long and hard about them, turn them over in my mind, so that I can have a judgment stored away.
I live in a Blue State. If I ever have to use deadly force, I am likely to get the shaft from the state even if I have done what a reasonable person might do. I am trying to learn the laws more concretely so that when I analyze these things I can do so in the framework of our restrictive state laws on the use of deadly force. We do not have a “stand your ground” statute here, and I have a gut feeling that even if someone had a weapon pointed at me and I shot and harmed them, I could be nailed to the hull by the state.
No two situations are likely to be alike.
But I think there is value to doing this mental exercise. I would rather have taken the time to at least think about it, than to find myself in a situation that is completely new and unique in my mind with no frame of reference.
That would be far worse, I think.