I thought the right was 'you can legally kill a person if that is what they were trying to do to you'. A $24,000 handgun or a 10in cast-iron skillet doesn't really matter, dead is dead.
I hear it also goes smoother (with the law) if the dead one tried first and this is the first time that you have had to kill anybody, ..... to protect your own life (or somebody in dire need of help)
I think you may have doubled and added a 0 the cost of a handgun, I suppose that's a typo. I'm not on my home computer so I don't have the references handy, but there are differences between what is "legal" and what is not unlawful and what is justified and so on. Although the Criminal Code is written in plain English, (at least one thing we can thank PET for) there are many ambiguities. While you are justified in using force against force to defend yourself and those under your care, the amount of force you use may be questioned. If you reasonably believe you, or those under your care are under immediate threat of death or grievous bodily harm, you are justified in using force, up to and including deadly force for defense. This may end up being for a judge and/or jury to decide. The problem is, if you have to wait for the agressor to "try first", what's left of you and/or your loved ones may just be photographs entered into evidence. What is reasonable, and who "a reasonable man" is and what is expected of him, has been debated in courts for over a century, and with no hope of any legal definition. Protect yourself and those under your care, don't do anything obviously stupid, and
always, always, always, talk to your lawyer before you talk to the authorities. Honest normal people are ten times more likely to convict themselves by their own words than the devious or guilty.
I might also add that a 10' skillet may not get the result needed, and if you can get that close to use it as a weapon it may actually be detrimental as a defense in court. For defense in the moment, if I'm faced with one or more 30 somethings, I want something that can reach out and touch someone, or a whole bunch of someones. I'm quite arthritic, I can't attack with any force or retreat with any speed, but at least I can make a succsession of 230 grain chunks of lead spit out at 900 fps and hit a series of moving targets.