Thread: Protesting Confiscation Events

Originally Posted by wanneroo

I've never understood this thing of having to have proportional self defense tools to the attacker, such as if the attacker has a bolt action, you cannot take them on with anything other than a bolt action. Or if they come at you with a hammer you've got to put your gun down and run around with them chasing you to find a hammer and then engage in hammer to hammer combat.

There's a case a few years back where a policeman shot and killed a man approaching him with a hammer. From memory the case was in favor of reasonable force used for self defense.