I hope I never do, because it ll mean some innocent life, probably mine, is in immediate danger. But if the time comes, I don t want to enrage or protect my attacker. There are two sets of reasons why when you shoot at a person, you should shoot to kill. The second set of reasons you should shoot to kill are moral reasons having to do with all of society. You should intend to kill when you shoot because shooting at someone is a good way to kill them, even when you don t intend to.
Guns are dangerous.
You should aim a gun at another person only in circumstances that might reasonably require the death of the other person. I do not want to live where people believe shooting for any other purpose is valid. I want only deliberate ones, where an innocent person is defending himself or someone else. I want a society full of people who know shooting means killing, who thus see shooting at people as the most serious matter imaginable. As for smart guns, the fantasy is that we can produce guns that will shoot only for the owner.