I'm kind of reminded of the stories of Chinese road traffic accidents where the advice is to make sure the victim is dead - reverse over him if necessary - rather than any other outcome.
UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past - see R v Clegg.
> UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past
US law as well. If an assailant is obviously incapacitated or surrendering, it's illegal to keep shooting them.
That doesn't really conflict with what the grandparent post says: self defense firearms instructors typically teach students to fire multiple shots at the torso of an assailant, often to continue firing until the assailant stops being an obvious threat. It's risky to shoot someone who's attacking you and stop to see whether it worked.
As an example of the reasoning for this kind of instruction, here's an account of a gunfight between a police officer and a murder suspect. The suspect continued shooting after taking several bullets to the chest and tried to drive away after being shot a total of 22 times.
> UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past - see R v Clegg.
Pretty sure so does the US law. It comes to how determination of "danger is past" happens. There are two aspects there I can think of : 1) This idea that acting too calculating and methodical, shooting one round in the leg, waiting, seeing them crawl and reach for their firearm, shooting another round, etc might not play well in court as the jury might look at it and say "hmm, he had time sit around and think and observe, why didn't he run to save his life at that point" it becomes dubious that this was self defense it starts to look like attempted murder there. While something like "life was in danger, reacted quickly, shot all the rounds, etc". Not saying one way is right or wrong it is just juries I think are inclined to acquit in the later case. 2) There is probably the same perverse idea as the Chinese drivers backing up and making sure they really crush that victim well enough for them to die, because then a dead person they can't sue in a civil court.
I'm kind of reminded of the stories of Chinese road traffic accidents where the advice is to make sure the victim is dead - reverse over him if necessary - rather than any other outcome.
UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past - see R v Clegg.