-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Man Claims Stand Your Ground Defense After Shooting Unarmed Man Over Parking Spot
- Thread starter Pickman
- Start date
Not easy? Come on man, I hate people who park in spots reserved for others too, and getting shoved by that person would fucking piss me off too, but it's not then okay to kill that person. Calling the cops would have been acceptable, not this. One reason not to carry weapons. People can and do get angry and angry people don't think things through.
I don't see how he is standing his ground.... while the push was unnecessary it didn't seem like he was moving to attack him further. Once he got the guy away from his gf he stopped and the guy pulled the gun out and shot anyways. Truly awful.
Watch the video the shooter is confronting the mans girlfriend/wife so the victim runs up and shoved this psychopath away from her. I would do the same thing in the same situation to defend the person I love. Once the man is on the ground the victim doesn't escalate it, he steps away. There's no excuse in the world that could make any sense.
That's fucked up
Maybe this can be used as a way to challenge stand your ground? Idk. That's so fucked.
I just don't see how this fits stand your ground law. I'm not seeing it. Yea, he shoved him. After that there was at least 5 ft of space between them with the guy that shoved him moving AWAY from the idiot on the ground. Stand your ground is supposed to protect a person that was fighting off lethal force.
Wish it could be as simple as the Castle Doctrine which is great. Not sure stand your ground in any capacity will ever be that simple.
Wish it could be as simple as the Castle Doctrine which is great. Not sure stand your ground in any capacity will ever be that simple.
Welp, looks like I can get a firearm and a lobotomy, move to Florida and target anyone who's in my way. Jesus.
I really fucking hate this state sometimes. I have a good job and I'm raising my kids here, but damn if I don't worry about them every time they go out. I've already had a number of talks with them about not confronting people and just walking away. It's just so fucking dangerous now for no reason. Just so goddam stupid.
I would never bother with someone like that, just carry on with my day. Not trying to be some psycho's victim.
I hope people protest and Drejka winds up in jail. Being shoved to the ground is no excuse to kill a man. Brandishing the gun would've sufficed, but giving the guy no time to react and blasting him is NOT self defense. Florida is fucked up.
I hope people protest and Drejka winds up in jail. Being shoved to the ground is no excuse to kill a man. Brandishing the gun would've sufficed, but giving the guy no time to react and blasting him is NOT self defense. Florida is fucked up.
It didn't count because she fired warning shots. That means she had time to react and her life wasn't in imminent threat. However, if she had shot him, she could use stand your ground.
Excuse me, this would have not happened in a lot of third world countries, all of them lacking a "stand your ground" law in the first place.
If he would have advanced after that and went to get on top of him it would have been fully justified. But the guy backed off after the assault so it went from being an assault to unjustified shooting
yeah getting pushed to the ground definitely calls for an on the spot extrajudical execution in front of the child. The shooter must be your hero
what an amazing country
User Banned (1 Week): Aggressive concern trolling and rationalizing a lethal shooting
Who cares about the pushing? I already said the crime was parking in the illegal spot. Shooting the man was unjustified, however the driver deserved to be berated and at the very least have his car towed away. A beat down would've been in order not execution. The driver should've accepted he committed a henious act and bowed his head in shame.
This what happens when a consortium of retailers write your laws word for word. This is the handiwork of the Koch backed ALEC.
This is probably the same clown that tells ppl to be civil when I black person is the aggressor good thing you got banned with that dumbass opinion
Will probably happen, it is the perfect vigilante law. Just provoke him, he touches you and you execute him.
Nah, you can't justify this killing in any shape or form. Even if the driver hit him with fists there was no reason to basically execute him in front of his family.
Could America have a referendum on the 2nd amendment rights like how Ireland did recently for abortion?
Just a big vote to get it removed/keep it.
Just a big vote to get it removed/keep it.
This is what happens when Marion Hammer writes your gun laws and you enact them verbatim.
Read this article. It is absolutely chilling.
In the next 20 years, no way. Way too many Americans in power love their guns.
But the kids today growing up with school shootings happening every week, when that generation is finally elected in 30-40 years, I truly do believe the 2nd Amendment will be gutted or perhaps even nullified with a new Amendment.
To me a Referendum/Plebiscite is one of worst idea to decide anything concerning individual rights. It should never be put in the hands of general population... (bad ideas to put in a plebiscite: abortion, gay marriage, religion). We should be very very careful put anything in a plebiscite/referendum.
I suppose the law technically sort of fits since he pushed him. But that person said he waits there to argue with people about the spot. He goes looking for a fight. They would probably need to look at survailance of the store to show how often he hug around there. I think its a good case for premeditated murder for a random next person to trigger him.
It is. As a Canadian - and a trans woman, at that - I'm scared to even fly OVER America, let alone set foot in it.
As you should be. The gun lust I've seen happen to people on planes when they fly over the US is something to behold. Rational human beings turn into literal monsters.