No info on case law regarding number of rounds in a decision, of course it is brought up in the news in many shooting cases.
If asked that question I would respond that they are justified in firing rounds until a reasonable person would believe the lethal threat no longer exists.
I would also point out that forensic examination of the wound channels will give an idea of the relative position of the persons body when the rounds were fired just in case they've some cock-eyed notion about making sure the assailant is for sure dead.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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