[Yellowfin]

Stopping the threat. When necessary beyond verbal and visual deterrence (drawing, etc.)it is by most effective incapacitation method possible. It is only an undesirable side effect that such happens to be fatal after the fact, however, my regard in an instance as it would be necessary is first and foremost the well being of that who I am protecting. Gunshot wounds are survivable thanks to modern medical care and that's where an attacker would be headed--away from me and my loved ones, incapable of inflicting further threat or injury so long as they are within any appreciable proximity inabling to do so. As to whether they live after that is between them, God, and the doctors, and the choice for it to come to that was theirs and not mine.