Florida Stand Your Ground Shooting

[Bonesinium]

Good point. Had he instead gotten up and beaten him to death with his fists that would surely have been better.

I don’t think the lack of fist fighting over parking spaces is the problem here.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Oh, isn’t this going to be the shite storm
Our family of strongly opinionated NES members

With not any ado of why

Bad shoot,

 

[Yosemite Sam]

He shoved him!
Is that why basketball players don’t carry on court

A lot of shoving going on there. LOL

SORRY, couldn’t help myself

 

[Roadglide]

I understand the logic here entirely, and an observer can most definitely think of how they would react in any given situation or how they would have handled things differently. But what happened to the idea that you only draw when absolutely necessary, and when you draw, it's to shoot - not brandish in hopes of diffusing the situation, not firing warning shot. The most predictable outcome for the man on the ground, who feared for his life, was to shoot and diffuse the situation.

Exactly. Just watched it real quick but it seems to me if the guy on the ground just pulled and shot the guy the second he advanced on him, we probably wouldn’t be talking about this right now.

 

[straightshooterjake]

Apparently, the shooter in this case, who is currently incarcerated, was recently hit in the head with a sock with a lock in it.

Man convicted in parking lot shooting attacked in prison

The man who was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man during a parking lot dispute was attacked in prison Tuesday and has been transferred to protective custody, his lawyer said. Michael Drejka, 49, was hit in the head with a sock that had a lock inside...

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