The basic point of shooting someone in self defense is to make them stop doing whatever it was that caused you to pop them in the first place. Death is a potential side effect. You may pull your gun and he flees, you may shoot him once and he surrenders or collapses, or, you may have to shoot him til you run empty, Obviously you want your shots to have the best chance of taking the fight out of someone, that's where center of mass comes in. Death is only a side effect of stopping a threat, you don't want to go from justified homicide to murder.As simple a sentence as it is, shoot to STOP the threat does sound marvels better than shoot to kill.
so I guess the old training saying of "never shoot to wound, shoot to kill" is hooplah?? I'm of course being sarcastic, but just curious if that saying is inapplicable to break-ins?
if someone tries to mug me and pulls out a gun and shoots as I reach for mine but misses, am I still shooting to stop, or to kill? Again, splitting of some DAMN fine hairs..