This is another point wherein I think people are commenting on self-defense or defense of others without knowing reality.
If you're in a deadly force situation, and you're fighting the deadly force threat, you stop fighting when the threat stops being a threat.
Yeah, in most cases, just showing a bad guy a gun is enough to get him to back down.
Still, I'm aware of three cases in which a person was shot fifteen times, morality wounded, and still managed to inflict death or serious bodily injury on someone.
If the media reports, "Man dies after being shot fifteen times. Shooter claims self-defense." you could be forgiven for thinking, 'Fifteen times? Why was that necessary?" I'll forgive you until you voice your dumb opinion.
Yeah, sometimes that's excessive. Still, basic science, if a person is shot in the heart and mortally wounded while charging, an average person can cover more than half a football field before the information is communicated to his brain that his heart isn't functioning.
Most people back down without physical force being needed. A lot of people back down at the threat. A lot of people back down after one shot.
Some people are on drugs. Some people hopped up on adrenaline. Some people are just so obsessed with killing their victims that they don't care that they've been mortally wounde in the process.
I understand that people want a clean and clear line in which defensive force becomes excessive force; but, we don't live in that world.
I would argue that it's immoral for people to call for others to go to prison while falsely believing that we do live in that world