I hate to hijack this, still. Josey when you say:

"... But if you must make a stand, IMHO and the NRA instructors who lead our course in home defense, if you draw your gun, you'd better shoot to kill. If you didn't want to kill him/her, then your life was not in danger. It is much more difficult to defend an attempt at wounding someone, than it is to defend your actions in an attempt to kill them, or in fact, killing them. If you attempt to wound, then your life must not have been in danger...and they'll eat you alive!"

Don't you mean that you must shoot Center Of Mass to STOP assailant. That you knew death or serious bodily injury would be the result of your actions, but the situation required you to attack in such a way. STILL your intent was to STOP not to KILL. If a cop hears you say -at 3AM- that you wanted to KILL your assaillant I would think that would trigger the 'nod and wink' between the cops present, who would then promptly escort you to the local lockup.

If you say you shot the perp because you wanted to STOP him, that would seem more reasonable.

1 Deadly force was justified
2 You chose to use it.

If you say you wanted to KILL.

1 Deadly force was justified
2 You wanted to KIlLL
3 Maybe deadly force was NOT justified (cops shakes his head as he can't beleive you just said out loud that you wanted to KILL perp). As situation is not crystal clear he has to take the case to local DA (and you to jail).

The way I hear it from Masaab Ayoob, (and my firearms instructor and a local state judge who attended my last class) is closer to the above than yours; he is often part of that afore-mentioned $70,000 legal defense team, as he testifies as an expert witness in justifiable shooting cases.

What do you say.

[color:"purple"] And to get back to the local program..I own a 590. Would buy another one! [/color]