25 yards is too far away for legal defense nonsense.

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FWIW, The first seven rounds on the Arizona LEOSA qualification are fired from 25 yards. If your assailant has a firearm, distance is irrelevant. An edged or blunt-force weapon would not pose an imminent threat at 25 yards, but would at a third that distance if the perpetrator was charging you with it.
 
I try to train to develop skills that could be applicable to a scenario that has actually occurred. An example:

The Colorado "Batman" theatre murderer carried a rifle, wore body armor, entered the theatre near the stage, and fired from the base of the screen.

I don't know how the "Batman" theatre was configured. However, I do know that the last movie theatre I was in had covered entrance tunnels on either side of the hall. These tunnels entered the room at about row six. Most of the seats were above row six, between the tunnels. In order to exit, those in this main seating area had to descend to one of the tunnel entrances; there were no exits above these seats.

Distance from the middle rows of the upper seating section to the screen was at least 75 feet.

Responding to the OP, if that opponent entered that room, at first glance a person in the main seating area might reasonably return fire, and this action might likely be legally justified. On the surface, at least, this scenario makes a blanket statement like "shooting at somebody 25 yards away couldn't be in self defense" sound pretty silly.

For extra credit, though, think about the shots a defender might have to make in this situation. Either make a head shot with her/his carry gun at 75 feet from a concealed position behind a theatre seat or laying in an aisle

OR

shoot that carry gun repeatedly at the murderer while moving quickly down stairs toward one of the exit tunnels, possibly with a SO in tow.

Or maybe both.

Each is a challenging shot. If a defender had never developed the skills or didn't carry the equipment necessary to have a chance of actually connecting at that distance from those positions, would shooting back still be seen as reasonable and possibly legally justifiable?

A defender's training, skills, and equipment, not just the scenario itself, likely affects what could be seen as reasonable. To say nothing of the way those items are explained to a prosecutor and/or a jury.

For someone with a snubbie with minimal sights, who only knows how to point-shoot, 5 or 7 yards might be a reasonable distance limit. By contrast, a dedicated shooter who trains and practices and carries an accurate handgun with a crisp trigger might have a much longer resonable distance.
 
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