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No. Using deadly force is not the same as wanting to kill someone.
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There's a lot of interpretation on these issues about what a person says and how it is taken. I was just saying, I think, if I was ever in that situation, I would never say that, once I truly felt my life was in danger, that I was attempting to use anything less than deadly force. I would make no statements to the effect of or that could be construed as I only meant to wound him/her.
The whole point is, if we are ever in that situation to have to defend our actions, we have to be very careful as to exactly what we say and how we say it because so much can be interpreted to mean so many different things. Like, I didn't mean to kill him/her only to stop them can be taken to mean, so you didn't mean to use deadly force and if you didn't mean to use deadly force, then you must have thought at the time that deadly force wasn't warranted.