Self defense.

Claiming self defense is not as straight forward as most people think. If you’re honestly curious, and it’s good to know by the way, look up the laws in whichever states you’re curious about. It varies, what you can use to defend yourself, the level of force used vs. the threat level, and when to stop retaliating, opportunities to flee, many circumstances come into play. For instance, as a general rule, once the threat has stopped you are supposed to stop defending yourself. Ex. Someone pulls knife on you and runs at you, you then pullout your legal concealed carry and they turn and run, if you then shoot them you will probably be in trouble legally, depending on circumstances. Or, someone attacks you, you get into a fight and you knock them down, they’re lying on the ground, not moving/crawling away, and you then stomp their head a couple times and they die or go into a coma. You could get in trouble because the threat was neutralized but you still continued. It can be tricky to prove you were in legitimate fear for your life and responded accordingly without going too far. Look up “stand your ground” laws and other info. Interesting stuff