The definition of \u201ccheating\u201d is \u201clying and stealing.\u201d If a violent criminal threatens you with death, it isn\u2019t cheating for you to respond with \u201cthreat in kind\u201d (which I would consider to be \u201cfulfilling your duty to warn\u201d), or even for you to unleash deadly force if the totality of the circumstances warranted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the years, sometimes as a police officer and sometimes as an armed citizen, I\u2019ve had occasion to draw a gun on dozens of people. I never got in trouble over it because each time, what the person on the other side of the gun was doing absolutely warranted my lawful defensive actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem is, the attacker is the actor; the defender is the reactor; and action beats reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I dominated those encounters by getting my gun out and on the Bad Guys before they could take control of the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend Greg Ellifritz is a retired career cop and a master instructor in multiple forms of self-defense. He has an excellent blog I\u2019d recommend you all subscribe to at here<\/a>. Greg does a weekly segment I consider a \u201cmust read\u201d in which he does a \u201cReader\u2019s Digest\u201d sort of compendium of articles relevant to personal safety and self-defense. He recently included one of my articles titled \u201cThe Way of the Weasel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n