Stand Your Ground or Duty to Retreat

[ManiacJoe]

18. Follow ups.

I am against warning shots because you never know where they will land. People have died from warning shots who were not involved or even knew anything was happening.

This is one of the reasons they are illegal.

Granted I mostly have only entertainment media as examples, but I can think of someone who can't retreat, have a gun, don't want to kill or or even harm but scare or show a willingness to pull the trigger.

This is commonly referred to as "bluffing". Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Tactically it is always a bad option because the attacker tends to assume you are really not willing to shoot them; and things get worse from there. The willingness to kill is a requirement of using lethal force. Some folks have given this serious consideration and have concluded that they cannot do it; the correct approach for them is to not carry lethal weapons since they really do fall into the category of "the attacker may take way your gun and use it against you".

I am 45 yo, 5'9" and certainly not athletic, I am attacked by a 22 yo, 6'2" who puts in a couple of hours in the gym daily. They could kill me with their bare hands...

Disparity of force is one of the non-weapon equivalents of lethal force. So is being out numbered.