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Old 06-09-2019, 07:24 PM   #93
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: Acceptable Self-Defense, Limits, Decapitations

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Uh... if, in the course of defending himself and others, a Reserve Deputy of the Galveston County Sheriff's Office should have... decapitated two people, a bit, with his heirloom shortsword-sized Bowie knife, how are the responding officers going to deal with that?
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And there is a Sergeant of the Galveston PD there arresting surviving sicarios and attesting that these two Reserve Deputies saved his life and that of these wounded.
The press might find the knife aspect interesting, but legally speaking it's not particularly different from pulling out a gun and shooting them. Which, under the described conditions, is legal. Now, there may be authorities and/or media wondering what's up with these 'reserve deputies' and investigating, but that's mostly a problem if the PCs have been engaging in illegal behavior (or otherwise in need of concealment) that no-one was previously noticing, it doesn't directly affect this situation.
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