Thank you for a rather pompous answer. It is obvious that you did not truly understand my point.
You must consider what are the probabilities of getting the best outcome for yourself at the end of the process.
I postulated a scenario where you clearly see that you are facing a pre-adolescent child. Perhaps that child is the evil scion of a drug lord but you can play that fantasy's odds against the odds it is just a stupid kid.
Next consider the odds that you take a pellet and suffer truly serious injury. I know that folks lose eyes and have been killed. But it is unlikely.
However, if you shoot the evil Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer in an efficient manner - let's say you Mozambique the poor ol' farm boy, I bet the odds are orders of magnitude greater that:
1. You have serious legal jeopardy and even if no-billed, you will many thousands of dollars of legal expenses. Even if not guilty, hear comes the civil trial with its notorious lesser standards of proof that you are one crazed gun loonie. Yes, your honor, I read on on a tactical list that I should shoot a child because:
"How are adults different? Is it OK to be shot by a child (with anything), but not by an adult? Does it matter if you are killed by a child or an adult?
In essence, if the shooting is intentional (not accidental), it needs to STOP. Drug gangs in big cities have been hireing juveniles, quite young ones, to commit murders because they only go to jail until they are 18 or 21."
2. You will be ostracized at work and in the community
3. If you have a family, it is quite possible that your family relations will suffer from the stress.
4. You may have to move.
So given the odds of the latter set of events is much higher than the farm boy killing you with a pellet gun - reason would suggest trying to avoid shooting him. Of course, Ayoob can appear at your trial if you prefer.
Not a flame, an attempt to get you to consider your response in light of some serious questions. I do not seek your response here, but hope you will take the time for some reflection on what you have posted.
PS, I have been in the field and seen the evil farm boy - clearly not the hip-hop sentry of the drug lord. Said child was shooting a clear air gun. I yelled at him to be careful. Perhaps, I should have just immediately fired a Federal Tactical 12 gauge slug at him. That's what I had in my shotgun.
The mind is the best weapon. Use it .