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Our society is full of people who seem to believe that "unarmed" means "no threat". This is a myth that has been spread by the media and is preposterous. Men were killing other men with their fists and feet long before guns were invented.

In early September I was fortunate enough to attend a black belt level jiu jitsu seminar in Dallas. I spent 3 days rolling around on the mat with some very high level grapplers and believe me, even a strong, healthy man can get put on his back and quickly find himself in a serious world of hurt by even a moderately trained fighter.

Now if the shooter is in your instructor's scenario is an older person, with bad knees, bad back, or arthritic hands, they simply cannot allow an advancing attacker to shoot on them and take them to the ground. If you are in serious enough danger to pull your gun and fire, you are in enough danger to keep firing until the threat is stopped. Certainly I would not encourage "cleaning up" by going back and finishing off a downed attacker as in Mr. Cotton's example, but the threat must be stopped to the point where you can safely exit and wait for PD.