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There is a reason we have professional police forces.
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the police are there to solve crimes, not prevent them. A police officer cannot interfere with a citizen until he has reason to suspect that a crime has been commited. Ask any woman or man who has tried to have a violent roomate removed from thier house, until they see a mark that shows battery may have occured they cannot force a leagal resident to leave the property.
Most self-defense laws state that only an equal or lesser amount of force may be used to defend ones-self, and that force must be stopped as soon as the threat is stopped. This means that if someone threatens you with a baseball bat you cannot shoot them,(excessive force),and as soon as they drop the bat you can no longer attack them.
Now some areas have a "Right to Response" law that allows a person to use whatever force is necessary to end the threat and ensure the attacker will not try again.