> If you pick up a gun, you are actively planning the possibility of a shoot. That is exactly what I stated earlier. Nobody is planning to shoot someone with m

> If you pick up a gun, you are actively planning the possibility of a shoot. That is exactly what I stated earlier. Nobody is planning to shoot someone with malice aforethought in a self-defense scenario. As you say, they are planning for the possibility that they might shoot someone. Those are two very different things. > I think we are just sparring over the definition of "planning". Have a good day! It matters a lot in a legal context. If you state the assertion that “everyone who picks up a gun is planning to shoot someone”, then automatically everyone who ever picked up a gun is guilty of a very specific crime. The distinction matters a lot.