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It's a question of how much risk you're willing to accept and how much you are willing to pay to avoid risk. The answer will be different for each person.

- Jim

Here are your options, as I understand them:

• You can subscribe to a legal service. This is one example: http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... hp?p=83340
• You can find a lawyer and pay a retainer. Retainers run a couple of thousand dollars these days. You might ask your CHL instructor or another lawyer that you know for a recommendation.
• You can get recommendations for attorneys and just keep a phone number in your wallet and on your cell phone.
• You can make your motto "Don't worry. Be happy," and start worrying when you need to.

If you can afford a pistol, a computer, an internet connection, and a warm/cool place to sit, you are probably not going to be considered indigent and not given a public defender.

Many people who use deadly force in self defense are never arrested or charged with a crime. It's not real clear to me what an attorney can do for them, other than talking informally to prosecutors.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

- Jim