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Interesting, and I'm glad to see that this was a misunderstanding, because a law abiding citizen protecting him or herself could get hurt or killed if that law were a reality. Now, I took my CHL class today and want to be sure I heard something correctly....If I am not mistaken my instructor said that if you are being threatened physically by someone who is obviously physically larger and stronger than you, whether with or without a gun, and you draw your weapon because it escalates to the point you are in fear for your safety....Sorry, that's a bit of a run on sentence...

Anyway...

If you are in this position and the threatening person says, "go ahead shoot me", it is then legal to shoot them?

Believe me, it would take much more than that to make me pull the trigger, but I just want to be sure I heard him correctly.

On a side note, I took my first ever CHL class just a few hours ago...and well, I think the CHL class material is very informative and all extremely relevant, but if there is one thing I would change it would be this:

I would dedicate more time to ensuring that each student TRULY understands all that is involved with using deadly force...at the time the shots are fired, and months later... I would also spend more time and maybe include some more intensive lessons on defusing a situation verbally. This was covered, the "child, parent, adult" aspects of communication, but I think it is just as important as learning how to draw and shoot your weapon should it come to that point. I have read some stories in the news of CHL holders acting like Wild West Cowboys when it was probably unnecessary to fire shots, (from what I could tell by reading the articles, I was not in their shoes so I really can't say).

Believe me I have zero sympathy for lowlife criminals, and as far as I'm concerned, when they decide to rob, burglarize, or use violence, then whatever happens to them is their own fault and they have nobody to blame but themselves. Unfortunately, however, the way this disillusioned nation's attitude towards law abiding gun owners is going, anytime there is any sliver of a doubt of whether or not it was completely necessary to fire shots (meaning whether or not this persons life was threatened), it gets the anti gun (for lack of a better word) hypocrites in a stir, and the last thing we need is people setting bad examples for them to use as "ammo" to contest our rights. Just something I've observed in the last year or so. Then again, if we could the pendulum the complete other direction and we'd definitely have a more "polite society" in the long run...just sayin'