Personal defense with awful vision?

[Drav]

Now, if you have a shooter who is, for all intents and purposes, blind without glasses, and the facts show that the shot was fired without the glasses on,

And how, exactly, would they know you fired without your glasses on? Catch my drift?

 

[CAS700850]

Walt,

In Ohio, lethal force can only be used to protect persons, not property. One can have the use of deadly force justified if he or she reasonably believed that the subject presented an imminent risk of death or serious physical harm to the shooter. From my experiences (I am a prosecuting attorney), a homeowner will get a bit of slack from a jury in this regards. Of course, I'm a pro 2A prosecutor in a pro 2A jurisdiction.

And, you are right Walt, if the shoot is good, this will likely be a non-issue in a criminal investigation. However, I am close with an attorney for a major insurance company who does liability work. She has personally been involved in a case where the victim's family filed a wrongful death action after a shooting was ruled justified. The plaintiff's attorney alleged negligence against the shooter, claiming that the gun was cocked and discharged accidentally while the homeowner was holding the intruder at gunpoint. The case was dismissed after the insurance company withdrew from the case (Basically, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the shooting was an intentional act, and thus outside the scope of the policy, thereby relieving the insurance company of its duty to defend. Once the insurance company was gone, so was the half-million dollar policy, and the attorney saw that there was no chance of a cash settlement, and the case was dismissed.)

I have participated in the investigation of several shootings. The only questions asked about the guns are:
1. The shooter legally in possession of the gun?
2. Is the gun itself legal? Not sawed off of full-auto?

Perhaps it is just the lawyer in me being overly cautious. And, then again, Drav is right. If the shoot is good otherwise, no one may ever know corrective lenses were an issue.

 

[Kamicosmos]

I actually had a thread on this about 9 months back:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=113371&highlight=glasses

Anyways, as I mentioned there:

I got to the range today, and tried a few rounds with out my pres. glasses. I even loaded the gun without them. That was a bit tricky!

But, the shooting wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I kept 6 shots of .357 mag all in the black of a B-24 at around 12 yards.

My eyesight is bad enough that when holding the revolver out in front of me, I couldn't distinguish the front sight from the rear. Just one big black blob in my hand. So, I trusted my grip to have the gun pointed straight. I then brought the small black blob up until it merged into the larger black blob downrange.

I'm the type, I often find myself awake, reading lamp on, glasses on, and getting out of bed before I fully realize that something woke me up. So, me not having the glasses on isn't a critical thing for me.

But, getting in a fight, or for other reasons (knocking the glasses off the table, dog going nuts and tripping you up, etc) I feel it's a good idea to at least experience shooting without your glasses every now and then. Kind of like shooting your snubbie at 100 yards with your weak hand....Better to experience it in practice, than in a real life situation!