Proportionality

If your attacker is punching you, you cant use deadly force. The attacker has to put you in grave danger such as the threat of death or serious bodily injury in order for you to use deadly force.

In an aggressive confrontation, If someone gets close enough to punch me without me having taken some action, I have done something wrong.

If you find yourself in a confrontation with someone, the first thing to do if possible is back away, create space, and yell out something like, stay back I feel threatened. Make it so other people witness that you are not the aggressor, and that you tried to remove yourself from the confrontation. Never make a threat, never posture aggressively. Even at the cost of pride, if you can leave the environment, then leave. And remember what Dalton said in Roadhouse, "be polite". You never win a fight you could have avoided.

Space creates options, and it give you time to access the threat, and your strength vs aggressors. Study your backstop. If you determine you have to fight, never let anyone get close enough to hit you, without hitting them first. And don't say a word. What goes into the flower, does not go into the fruit. This advice was given to as teen, and has served me well on more than one occasion.

I've already determined at this point that I'm not going to be punched on. If you come at me in a sufficiently threatening aggressive manner, if I have done everything right, I'm going to have my hand on my gun, or gun out in a low ready position with plenty of space to warn you that I feel threatened, and not to come closer. You are now in control of my decision not me. If you keep coming eventually, at some point before you get close enough to neutralize my weapon, if I am unable to walk away, which under Florida law I am under to obligation to do, I am going to shoot your ass, but that choice was yours, and not mine.

Florida law has a low threshold for use of deadly force, but use of deadly force is a serious matter, and I'm not talking about the law. I know that if I kill someone, justified, or not, I am going to have to live with it for the rest of my life, and I am going to have to answer to God for that life I took. I pray that I never have to make that decision to save my life or the life of another.

Proportionality

If your attacker is punching you, you cant use deadly force. The attacker has to put you in grave danger such as the threat of death or serious bodily injury in order for you to use deadly force.

In an aggressive confrontation, If someone gets close enough to punch me without me having taken some action, I have done something wrong.

If you find yourself in a confrontation with someone, the first thing to do if possible is back away, create space, and yell out something like, stay back I feel threatened. Make it so other people witness that you are not the aggressor, and that you tried to remove yourself from the confrontation. Never make a threat, never posture aggressively. Even at the cost of pride, if you can leave the environment, then leave. And remember what Dalton said in Roadhouse, "be polite". You never win a fight you could have avoided.

Space creates options, and it give you time to access the threat, and your strength vs aggressors. Study your backstop. If you determine you have to fight, never let anyone get close enough to hit you, without hitting them first. And don't say a word. What goes into the flower, does not go into the fruit. This advice was given to as teen, and has served me well on more than one occasion.

I've already determined at this point that I'm not going to be punched on. If you come at me in a sufficiently threatening aggressive manner, if I have done everything right, I'm going to have my hand on my gun, or gun out in a low ready position with plenty of space to warn you that I feel threatened, and not to come closer. You are now in control of my decision not me. If you keep coming eventually, at some point before you get close enough to neutralize my weapon, if I am unable to walk away, which under Florida law I am under to obligation to do, I am going to shoot your ass, but that choice was yours, and not mine.

Florida law has a low threshold for use of deadly force, but use of deadly force is a serious matter, and I'm not talking about the law. I know that if I kill someone, I am going to have to live with that choice for the rest of my life, and I am going to have to answer to God for that life I took. I pray that I never have to make that decision to save my life or the life of another.

Proportionality

If your attacker is punching you, you cant use deadly force. The attacker has to put you in grave danger such as the threat of death or serious bodily injury in order for you to use deadly force.

In an aggressive confrontation, If someone gets close enough to punch me without me having taken some action, I have done something wrong.

If you find yourself in a confrontation with someone, the first thing to do if possible is back away, create space, and yell out something like, stay back I feel threatened. Make it so other people witness that you are not the aggressor, and that you tried to remove yourself from the confrontation. Never make a threat, never posture aggressively. Even at the cost of pride, if you can leave the environment, then leave. And remember what Dalton said in Roadhouse, "be polite". You never win a fight you could have avoided.

Space creates options, and it give you time to access the threat, and your strength vs aggressors. Study your backstop. If you determine you have to fight, never let anyone get close enough to hit you, without hitting them first. And don't say a word. What goes into the flower, does not go into the fruit. This advice was given to as teen, and has served me well on more than one occasion.

I've already determined I'm not going to be punched on. If you come at me in a sufficiently threatening aggressive manner, if I have done everything right, I'm going to have my hand on my gun, or gun out in a low ready position with plenty of space to warn you that I feel threatened, and not to come closer. You are now in control of my decision not me. If you keep coming eventually, at some point before you get close enough to neutralize my weapon, if I am unable to walk away, which under Florida law I am under to obligation to do, I am going to shoot your ass, but that choice was yours, and not mine.

Florida law has a low threshold for use of deadly force, but use of deadly force is a serious matter, and I'm not talking about the law. I know that if I kill someone, I am going to have to live with that choice for the rest of my life, and I am going to have to answer to God for that life I took. I pray that I never have to make that decision to save my life or the life of another.

Proportionality

If your attacker is punching you, you cant use deadly force. The attacker has to put you in grave danger such as the threat of death or serious bodily injury in order for you to use deadly force.

In an aggressive confrontation, If someone gets close enough to punch me without me having taken some action, I have done something wrong.

If you find yourself in a confrontation with someone, the first thing to do if possible is back away, create space, and yell out something like, stay back I feel threatened. Make it so other people witness that you are not the aggressor, and that you tried to remove yourself from the confrontation. Never make a threat, never posture aggressively. Even at the cost of pride, if you can leave the environment, then leave. And remember what Dalton said in Roadhouse, "be polite". You never win a fight you could have avoided.

Space creates options, and it give you time to access the threat, and your strength vs aggressors. If you determine you have to fight, never let anyone get close enough to hit you, without hitting them first. And don't say a word. What goes into the flower, does not go into the fruit. This advice was given to as teen, and has served me well on more than one occasion.

I've already determined I'm not going to be punched on. If you come at me in a sufficiently threatening aggressive manner, if I have done everything right, I'm going to have my hand on my gun, or gun out in a low ready position with plenty of space to warn you that I feel threatened, and not to come closer. You are now in control of my decision not me. If you keep coming eventually, at some point before you get close enough to neutralize my weapon, if I am unable to walk away, which under Florida law I am under to obligation to do, I am going to shoot your ass, but that choice was yours, and not mine.

Florida law has a low threshold for use of deadly force, but use of deadly force is a serious matter, and I'm not talking about the law. I know that if I kill someone, I am going to have to live with that choice for the rest of my life, and I am going to have to answer to God for that life I took. I pray that I never have to make that decision to save my life or the life of another.