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Ordinary force doesn't justify lethal force, so I don't think so. Not unless your intention is to just murder or hospitalize me because your being an internet tough guy.
Have you ever been punched in the face by someone who knows how to throw a punch Giz?
Bro, I'm telling you what the law is. If you can properly articulate that the punch was likely to kill you or hospitalize you (like Brock Lesnar trying to Knockout-Game you), then that's a different story.
And I'm telling you that the law doesn't matter and that until you gain that important life experience of getting punched in the face by someone who knows how to throw a punch, you will never understand how absolutely fucking retarded you are being right now.
Tell it to your attorney.
"I shot him in the head because he seemed to know how to throw a punch."
"Okay, so, you didn't say that, and I didn't hear that."
That depends entirely on what state you're in.
Ordinary Force is never a justification for Lethal Force. In any state.
The issue is that you have to articulate why a punch is lethal force (IE: Brock Lesnar punching a 108 year old woman)
What you call ordinary force is potentially lethal force. People have been knocked down by lucky hits and cracked their skulls on the pavement. Luckily, most of us don't have to defend ourselves by UK rules like you seem to believe.
No, what I call ordinary force is ordinary force. IF YOU CAN ARTICULATE THAT IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSERT THAT THE FORCE BEING USED AGAINST YOU CAN CAUSE YOU GREVIOUS BODILY HARM then it's no longer ordinary force.
Most single punches are considered ordinary force. Most, and this is all context dependent.
This is American law. Moreover, it's Western law.
This is not a debate, nor an argument here.