I'm all for defending oneself if being attacked by someone for no apparent reason. I certainly wouldn't turtle if my life were in danger, that is if my choices of fight or flight are down to fighting.
Like anything else I can see this law as such being abused. What's to say someone would like someone dead, angers the other person to the point of violence and then blows them away because their life apparently seems threatened. In that sense, it wouldn't be hard getting away with murder. Unless a clause is put forth that the attack is of random nature and the people involved don't know each other. But most attacks on people are from people knowing the people in the first place.
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