Snowy Rivers
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Reread the original Post.
Ok, here is something that I find few people ever discussing.
I had this issue beaten into my head back during my earlier years while training with some of the Big named folks.
The issue of the "Courtroom Pitfall" comes into the picture.
OK you just toasted an attacker and its over. NOOOOOOOOOOO not quite, the DA convienes a grand Jury to look at the case.
The prosecuter gets up in front of the jury and starts in, "ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, Mr Jones (you the shooter) used a 357 MAGNUM handgun to gundown his attacker"
A standard caliber was not good enough, he had to use a MAGNUM.
The jury likely has little knowledge that the 357 mag was once the mainstay of most LE.
That little play on words, could make all the difference in the world.
Do I see an excessive force thing starting to crawl into the picture here ????
You and I know better, but will this little ditty make the prosecutors case an easy one.???
Back in LFI 1 we discussed this very subject, right along with the subject of not using HAND LOADS.
I stress these two items in every CCW class.
"The court room pitfall"
I can't make all my students the best defense shooters in the world, but I can try hard to keep them from becoming food for the predators that scour the scene after the fact.
Snowy
Ok, here is something that I find few people ever discussing.
I had this issue beaten into my head back during my earlier years while training with some of the Big named folks.
The issue of the "Courtroom Pitfall" comes into the picture.
OK you just toasted an attacker and its over. NOOOOOOOOOOO not quite, the DA convienes a grand Jury to look at the case.
The prosecuter gets up in front of the jury and starts in, "ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, Mr Jones (you the shooter) used a 357 MAGNUM handgun to gundown his attacker"
A standard caliber was not good enough, he had to use a MAGNUM.
The jury likely has little knowledge that the 357 mag was once the mainstay of most LE.
That little play on words, could make all the difference in the world.
Do I see an excessive force thing starting to crawl into the picture here ????
You and I know better, but will this little ditty make the prosecutors case an easy one.???
Back in LFI 1 we discussed this very subject, right along with the subject of not using HAND LOADS.
I stress these two items in every CCW class.
"The court room pitfall"
I can't make all my students the best defense shooters in the world, but I can try hard to keep them from becoming food for the predators that scour the scene after the fact.
Snowy