I am glad you posted this. Most of the site should be required reading for you if you give any thought to self defense. Particularly "How NOT to get shot" and "

I am glad you posted this. Most of the site should be required reading for you if you give any thought to self defense. Particularly "How NOT to get shot" and "What is Self-Defense." Possibly the most important point it makes is how easy it is to go too far and become the aggressor once you are in a violent conflict. Or to inflame that conflict to begin with. "The real problem is that -- once the emotions have died down -- you may have to face the fact that your actions and words were part of the creation and escalation of the situation. And they might have been an overreaction on your part."