Rights and Responsibility Weapons Study Guide

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Secondary Defense - Law of Necessity coming to the aid of another. If the circumstances of another, regardless of the relationship, or lack thereof, to you, are the same as any of the three reas ons to use Deadly Force in your primary defense, then it is legal to use Deadyl Force upon a perpetrator, or multiple perpetrators, to protect another person Conditions for legal discharge of your firearm in self-defense or secondary defense 1. PositiveID of perpetrator (also knowing who they are not, i.e. familymember) 2. Must be legal to use Deadly Force under the law (Primary and/or Secondary Defense) 3. Reasonable and deliberate care to execute a "clean shot". (Line of fire issues, know what is beyond your target) Types of Assault 1. Simple a. Sudden b. Melee c. Josling, Pushing, Shoving 2. Aggravated a. Result ing in injury usually requiring hospitalization b. Con side rcircumstance, implementation (weapon), intent of perp, degree of injury 3. Felony a. Likelihood of death imminent Disparity Of Circumstance Defined as an imbalance of threat to defense, which means that there is an imbalance between your ability to defend and another person's ability to successfully carry out an attack.

Disparity Of Defense (Fatal force imbalance)

1. Gender 2. Size 3. Strength

4. Number of perpetrators 5. Your ability to fight back 6. Medical infirmity (current injury status, medication, ailments, disabilit ies) 7. Age 8. P os it ional disadvant age 9. Pugilistic abilit y (spec ializ edfighting skills, i.e. karat e,MMA, prize fighter)