Quote Originally Posted by sg1trogdor View Post
WHy would you presume that you are going to shoot to kill? Why can't I just shoot them in the leg or something to render them no longer a threat to my life or the lives of my family? Arrogance is the only word that comes to mind with this one.
If your life is truly being threatened, you shoot for center of mass, because the only way to be absolutely sure that an attacker is incapacitated is to kill them. In that stress situation, you're going to adrenaline dump, and that can limit your skill to less than what it would normally be, so you don't want to be aiming for a small/thin target. Also, unless you hit the bone in the leg (an even smaller target), you can't be sure they won't be able to keep coming at you.

Basically, if you're shooting to wound in a situation like that, you're exercising too little concern for your own safety and too much concern for your attacker's life, and it could easily get you hurt or killed.