Flfiremedic
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If you are going to spend the time to train, plan, and prepare for Self Defense, post event plans must be part of your preparation.
Yes, defense of a third party is certainly the most common justifiable scenario for deliberately shooting an attacker in the back and/ or side. LEO partners will routinely approach suspicious and known dangerous persons so that one LEO can shoot the subject person in the side or back if the other LEO is attacked with deadly force, or even if a furtive move that appears to be deadly force occurs. (Of course, then a grand jury must believe the furtive move presented what reasonably appeared to be a credible andThe shooter at the Panama City school board meeting was shot in the back, and the security guard was cleared (as he should have been).
A gunman came into the school board meeting and dismissed the public and female board member's, but held the male board members hostage. When he begins firing on the board members the security guard comes in the front door and shoots the gunman in the back.
So yes there are such things as justified shots in the back, however rare they may be.
Here's a link with video:
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/...ay_County_School_Board_meeting_111871839.html
Disclaimer: In the video that I just watched it appeared to edit the man being shot (it could have been some kind of lag in the video), but when this was on the local news, it showed the man actually being shot and killed. So use discretion if you decide to watch the video.
§ 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or
tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the
other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the
deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of
arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the
property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
You can shoot an armed (even unarmed if you know the right words) attacker an darn place you like; front, back, top, bottom, inside out etc. Qualifications: 1) You must be in fear of your life or the life of another person.
I can think of at least a dozen reasons/scenarios where shots to the back would be valid, necessary and reasonable, so the answer is a resounding YES!
We know we are legally and ethically allowed to shoot only to save our own lives or in some cases the lives of others.
In florida it is not illegal to shoot someone in the back. It just doesnt make you look good and is hard to prove self defense. However, the whole scenario where a person is in your home but they are fleeing, whether they have any of your property or not, you cannot shoot them. You will be found guilty.
Your understanding of the law is vey incorrect.Posted by SnowBlaZeR2: That last part ["where a person is in your home but they are fleeing, whether they have any of your property or not, you cannot shoot them. You will be found guilty"] is not true. In your home, fleeing or not, is game on.