Posted by alsaqr: its absurd to assume that elected prosecutors in my pro-gun state are going prosecute armed self defense cases...
As fiddletown has correctly opined, you have missed the point--completely.
If the prosecutor has reason to believe that
it is a lawful armed self defense case, he will have no reason at all to prosecute.
It is when the preponderance of the evidence does
not indicate that the use of deadly force was justified that prosecution will occur.
That's the
evidence--the facts that investigators are able to piece together after the fact. Forget the shooter's clean record, his CCW license, and so forth. Consider the facts that can be assembled after the shooting.
The facts may not seem to favor the shooter--but that does
not mean that he or she was not justified in using deadly force as a last resort to defend is or her life.
The prosecutor did not see it happen. He or she has to reconstruct the incident based on a few bits and pieces after the fact.
...with the same zeal as prosecutors in some "experts" anti-gun state with its appointed prosecutors.
I do not understand why so many people bring the 'antigun state" argument into the issue.
Arizona is certainly a "gun friendly" state. That did not stop the state from prosecuting Larry Hickey for what it believed to be the unlawful use of deadly force.
The use of force laws apply equally whether the actor has used a firearm, a crossbow, a Samurai sword, a carving knife, a baseball bat, or a cast iron fry pan.
California, Illinois, and Massachusetts are, by most every standard, "antigun" states. However, the laws, the case law, and for the most part, prosecutorial trends, are not stacked against the citizen who defends himself lawfully in those states, any more than is the case in many gun friendly" jurisdiction.
I do not know what it is that has created so many misconceptions in this area.