^ Maybe, but maybe not. 
Look at how the public perceived Vic Stacy, the legally armed citizen who took those shots in his trailer-park to save the life of a responding officer in TX.
OK, so it wasn't 80 yards - but heck, 56 ( https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/one-year-later-vic-stacy-and-the-peach-house-shootout/ ) ain't too shabby!
And we do know for-certain that Governor Rick Perry gave Mr. Stacy a nice brand-spankin' new Larue 7.62 OBR and a case of ammo for his troubles.....
FWIW, I don't think that you're necessarily wrong: and you're definitely right, it's going to be hard to make a "self defense" case out of an 80-yard shot (although it could be said that if you're taking incoming fire from said shooter, does it not stand to-reason that if you hit him and killed him, the same could be said the other way around, too, and that circumstances did indeed fit the AJOP criteria?). But at the same time, we have also seen that bad-breath distance shootings to have sparked the ire of prosecutors with certain political leanings.
I think in-reality, the circumstances are going to dictate both what we do and also the fallout thereafter.
However, that, I do not think, should be how we go about preparing for the fight of our lives.
The skills inherent to the longer shots are directly applicable towards both closer shots that demand greater precision as well as at faster cadence - certainly, we should be aware of how the legal implications of our defensive shooting (both in the criminal as well as civil sense), but those considerations, I believe, should be separated from the same of our skills.
Look at how the public perceived Vic Stacy, the legally armed citizen who took those shots in his trailer-park to save the life of a responding officer in TX.
OK, so it wasn't 80 yards
- but heck, 56 ( https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/one-year-later-vic-stacy-and-the-peach-house-shootout/ ) ain't too shabby! And we do know for-certain that Governor Rick Perry gave Mr. Stacy a nice brand-spankin' new Larue 7.62 OBR and a case of ammo for his troubles.....
FWIW, I don't think that you're necessarily wrong: and you're definitely right, it's going to be hard to make a "self defense" case out of an 80-yard shot (although it could be said that if you're taking incoming fire from said shooter, does it not stand to-reason that if you hit him and killed him, the same could be said the other way around, too, and that circumstances did indeed fit the AJOP criteria?). But at the same time, we have also seen that bad-breath distance shootings to have sparked the ire of prosecutors with certain political leanings.
I think in-reality, the circumstances are going to dictate both what we do and also the fallout thereafter.
However, that, I do not think, should be how we go about preparing for the fight of our lives.
The skills inherent to the longer shots are directly applicable towards both closer shots that demand greater precision as well as at faster cadence - certainly, we should be aware of how the legal implications of our defensive shooting (both in the criminal as well as civil sense), but those considerations, I believe, should be separated from the same of our skills.
