re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

As a rule, if you are using a gun to defend yourself or your family in your own home, it is assumed to be self-defense in most all cases.

The problem arises in “stand your ground” situations where a subjective sense of “being threatened” is used a grounds for using a weapon.

I think it was Massad Ayoob who said that, even in an open-and-shut case of self-defence, the first pull of the trigger costs you ten thousand bucks.