I, and the other members here understand the legal system to some basic level.
I never claimed otherwise. That said, I stand by what I said: "a good shoot is a good shoot" is a gross oversimplification of what really happens after a deadly force encounter, an attempt to reduce a fairly complicated (and sometimes seemingly arcane) process to a catchphrase. And it overlooks a lot of the process (determining whether it was ever a good shoot in the first place) in doing so.
Have the mods on this forum taken an official stance against 80% items?
Not to my knowledge. I certainly haven't. That said, I do think they run some risk of introducing unnecessary variables into already complex and uncertain situation. In the legal system, variables cause problems. One of the things they tell you in law school is "Never ask a question at trial unless you already know the answer." If you don't know the answer to a question, it's a variable. (And sometimes, clients turn them into variables right then and there, but that's a story for another day.) In many ways concealed carriers already work very hard at eliminating variables:
1. Carry the same pistol every day;
2. Carry at the same position every day;
3. Always carry when legal;
4. Train, train, train.
These are all steps that are taken to eliminate one or more variables. For lack of a better phrase, those are "physical action" variables. Do you have to swipe off a safety? Do you draw from 4 o'clock or from cross-draw?
On the legal side, I've tried to eliminate as many variables as possible. A prosecutor will find no Punisher grips on my carry gun, no death's head back plate, no catchy slogans engraved on the slide. Nothing that he can blow up to poster size to display to the jury. I've chosen a reliable factory round, and I can explain why I chose it. It's not called the Mankiller 3000. I want the prosecutor to be forced to focus on the conflict and the conflict alone. I don't want him getting any kind of traction on anything else.