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Teamless wrote:The problem with "most of these clowns....", is which are just pranking and which will cause real harm?

I am waiting for the day (soon I fear), that some real crazy person dresses as a clown, pulls a "prank" which will turn out to be a plot to seriously injure or even kill people
It is for this reason, that I too have thought about that "what would I do" scenario

I think that ground had already been covered. John Wayne Gacey.

There is no "but he shot him in the leg" defense to prosecution or exception to the use of deadly force laws. If the situation qualifies as a use of deadly force to prevent death or great bodily injury in defense of self or others than it qualifies and you take whatever means necessary to stop the threat. I doubt that there are 100 people in the entire world that could consistently pull of a successful leg shot on a moving target. So for 99.99% of us mere mortals, stopping the threat with a handgun would mean shots to center mass. Besides, a leg shot is actually more deadly than one to the chest. If you happen to even nick the femoral artery, the person runs a huge risk of bleeding out before 911 is even called - especially if they've already been running for a bit.