Afraid = paranoid, mentally ill. Guns are banned.The only reason to fire is I was afeared for my life, or the lives of other innocents.
"My life," lives of others? Oh, you're a danger to your self or others due to your grave mental disability, and you'll have to be committed to a mental institution for your own safety and the safety of others who might be harmed as a result of your delusional thinking disorder.
Sure. A good lawyer always asks for a mental health evaluation by order of the court before representing a client in a gun case.A lawyer would help you with that.
No, they're not. Got fingerprints? DNA?Concealed carry permit? They're already working up a cold-case frame-up job and getting a jury picked out to lynch you on a cocked-up murder charge in a capital punishment state. You may not have ever even been in that state in your life, let alone at the time of the alleged murder, but they have a cloud of witnesses who "come forward" on cue.The Police are not your friend.
It just happens to be a little bit more work to frame you on a murder charge than it it is to have you committed to a mental institution for life and revoke your gun rights.
Remember, there is no possible defense in court against a mental health civil commitment as there is for a criminal accusation, even though the consequences are the same: you serve hard time and lose gun rights for life.
Odd. Reasonable fear is something that anyone would feel. If someone admits to a fear of falling from the top of a skyscraper are they mentally ill? Or is it only gun owners?
Paranoid gun owners fear is more akin to fear that someone is going to push them off of a sky scraper. One might be reasonable. The other is usually nuts.