> UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past US law as well. If an assailant is obviously incapacitated or surren

> UK law very definitely requires you to stop shooting immediately once the danger is past US law as well. If an assailant is obviously incapacitated or surrendering, it's illegal to keep shooting them. That doesn't really conflict with what the grandparent post says: self defense firearms instructors typically teach students to fire multiple shots at the torso of an assailant, often to continue firing until the assailant stops being an obvious threat. It's risky to shoot someone who's attacking you and stop to see whether it worked. As an example of the reasoning for this kind of instruction, here's an account of a gunfight between a police officer and a murder suspect. The suspect continued shooting after taking several bullets to the chest and tried to drive away after being shot a total of 22 times. http://lawofficer.com/archive/officer-down-the-peter-soulis-incident/ http://lawofficer.com/archive/officer-down-the-peter-soulis-...