RE: Florida Stand Your Ground Shooting
August 2, 2018 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2018 at 9:03 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(August 2, 2018 at 8:39 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(July 21, 2018 at 9:57 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I do believe such a law can, in fact, be defensible (like, say, if someone is being mugged, and if it turns out the victim is actually packing heat and the perp isn't deterred by the threat of someone potentially killing him.) That said, I believe if you have this law, you REALLY need to be strict about the application.
With regards to this case, shooting a guy who has just shoved you to the ground seems like a pretty good case of self-defense. The shooter may be an argumentative SOB who was looking for an argument over a handicapped space, but the victim's response was way over the line, and his response to this would seem to be legitimate.
Sometimes, both sides in a given conflict are gaping assholes (hassling someone over a handicapped space vs. throwing someone to the ground over it), but even in those cases, there's a distinct possibility that someone might actually have some sort of moral high ground, and in this case, as much as I hate to admit it, the ornery sumbitch who shot the guy does, in my opinion. I know race can make relatively innocuous gestures seem threatening, but, really, if, for example, Liam Neeson (white action hero from the whitest country on Earth) threw me to the ground and I was packing heat, I'd fucking pull the trigger.
I'm pretty sure I could beat the shit out of Liam Neeson. He's like, 1000 years old.
I chose him partly because of his badass onscreen persona (I have no idea of his offscreen chops) and partly because he’s not only white, but from the whitest nation on the face of the Earth, which would totally eliminate the point of the “black brute” stereotype so often used to justify the racial profiling that so plagues the criminal justice system.
The Rock is more famously badass, but since he’s half black and half Samoan, that would not have worked for this purpose.
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