Another Florida CCW permit holder stands their ground, kills assailant.

[Lizzie Poppet]

49. Depends on what you mean by "regret."

Regret that it happened at all? Sure...anyone who didn't regret such a tragic scenario should seek psychiatric help. But regret that they acted the way they did in what can be very rationally viewed as a life-or-death situation. Nope.

"I know the police does not teach non-lethal wounding shots in most jurisdictions anymore, but there are instances where that makes sense to do."

In fact, they never have...and no, it doesn't make the slightest sense. Shooting to "wing 'em" is a Hollywood fabrication. People who are trained in defensive shooting are invariably trained to shoot at the center-of-mass...at the torso. That's because under the stress of an actual self-defense situation, and given what is likely to be a moving target, it's difficult enough to hit even that big a target. The next largest target is likely to be either the head (even more likely to result in fatality than the torso) or the thigh (better...but did you miss the femoral artery?). You're trained to shoot at the torso until the threat is neutralized (that is, they fall down).

Fortunately, someone shot under such circumstances has a good chance of surviving, assuming reasonably quick access to modern trauma medicine. I don't think any sane person wants to kill an attacker, at least not after the adrenaline wears off and the anger over being attacked fades. Practically everyone who has ever been in a situation that results in killing someone in self-defense, no matter how justified, says it's a horrible experience to have killed another human being. I'd go so far as to say anyone who doesn't experience such feeling is probably a sociopath.