Proportionality - " Don't bring a gun to a pillow fight "
Deadly defensive force may be only used to counter a deadly force threat.
If the threat is non-deadly in nature, only non-deadly defensive force can be used.
There's lots of room for interpretation. And these are catchphrases & not legal clauses.
But Branca claims to have reviewed existing self-defense laws in all 50 states and boiled the core principles common to all (most?) into five elements.
The worst form of "proportionality" is in Britain where you're not allowed to use any more dangerous of a weapon or force than you are already being attacked with.
That is basically designed to make people think that using equivalent force, but with the wrong tool, is a criminal offense; and that it is better to be killed then to defend yourself.
This type of gun control is a violation of inalienable human rights.
From Branca's website
There's lots of room for interpretation. And these are catchphrases & not legal clauses.
But Branca claims to have reviewed existing self-defense laws in all 50 states and boiled the core principles common to all (most?) into five elements.
The worst form of "proportionality" is in Britain where you're not allowed to use any more dangerous of a weapon or force than you are already being attacked with.
That is basically designed to make people think that using equivalent force, but with the wrong tool, is a criminal offense; and that it is better to be killed then to defend yourself.
This type of gun control is a violation of inalienable human rights.