Is the reason you argue everything but the law, the simple fact that you cannot defend your positions based on the law?
He doesn't have the law, so he can't pound the law. He doesn't have the facts, so he can't pound the facts. What he is doing is pounding the table and insisting that the man he shot was a dues-paying member of the Ku Klux Klan, so that makes it okay.
We've got the knife, we've got the facts, we've got the dead body, and we've got a few million eyewitnesses. So our friends have to pound the table to pieces.