Guns don't kill people ....

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

A woman woke up in the middle of the night to someone breaking down her apartment door. She grabs the gun from her nightstand as the intruder comes through her bedroom door,and shoots him dead, thus saving her life and the lives of her two young children.

Explain how this fictional use of a firearm was not defensive in nature.

Shooting the man is an offensive act. It's offense against offense. The door was defense, it was overcome by the intruder's offense, the battering and smashing. Shooting him as he comes through the bedroom door is her OFFENSE overcoming the intruder's offensive charge.

Calling it "defense" is common, but it is a perversion of the word.