One of the two times in my life that I used a firearm to turn around a violent attack, the police in my very liberal community had no problem with how I handled the situation, offered to assist me if legal problems arose. The other time, the police were not involved, but I would have expected the same result. As gentlemen of some intelligence, we are practiced at handling a "situation" to the best of our ability, education, and common sense and worrying about the consequences after we have done our duty.