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In the U.S. generally speaking, if you are found to be acting in self defense when you shoot another person, there generally is no punishment. You may, depending on the circumstances, have to hire an attorney, and there have been cases where people appeared to have acted in self defense but went to jail anyway, but there are usually mitigating circumstances, or some sort of odd law.

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