I don't know the answer to your question re. "examples". I'm sure there are some, but those could go back & forth all day. However, I am pretty sure that when you shoot & kill, or injure someone, you end up in court for a long time...maybe jail too. Zimmerman case is a good example. Imagine one of us trying to carry on a farming life while experiencing the legal wrangles  & publicity commotion that he's experiencing right now. You've got 200 A to spray, but you have to be at a pretrial hearing today...and it ends up cancelled after you get there (happens a lot!).  I know, we've often read here on NAT that "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.....", but the Zimmerman case is a good example of what happens in a split-second. I believe we also have learned that Zimmerman either verbally or visually warned Martin that he had a gun. So much for the "fear of the deterrent". Actually Zimmerman was jailed for lying about his finances....notice how when things go wrong, they can get really wrong?

Locally we had a retired gentleman that caught (in the act) people stealing his personal property from his domicile. It was dark, he thought they were armed, though he wasn't sure. He fired a shotgun as the intruder's pickup drove away. He killed a lady in the pickup that was involved w/the robbery. Robbers were not armed, I don't believe. He spent about 3 years in courts before all charges were dropped against him. However, in the meantime life had to be hell for him. You may know within every cell in your body that you're right, but you also have to listen to some prosecuting attorney verbally proclaiming that you should spend the rest of your natural life in prison. You & those around you have to occasionally consider that there's always a chance of that happeneing.  I'm guessing that if he had the chance to make that decision that night to either aim "at", or aim "high", he might've chose differently. Then, there was the sleepless nights of the rest of his family, also. I have no idea of the what it cost him financially. Anyone ever involved in court matters know that you spend days & days preparing for minutes or seconds of court time. I don't know of any insurance to cover your costs. Your life is shot for a while...just totally shot. Again, this gentleman was right, everyone knew he was right....but that's not the way it works in reality. Maybe if we were in 1845 again it would, but not today.

All the above has nothing to do w/the Aurora CO case. However, I continue to ask if anyone can prove that there wasn't already someone in that theatre that was CC that was returning fire? If so, if you were that person, would you now come to the authorities or press & proclaim your involvement? Or, maybe another question....are all CC folks highly trained enough to never "miss" their targets in a darkened theatre in the midst of human mayhem, teargas, and decisions?