Posted on 05/05/2012 1:14:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“If you carry a gun for self-defense, and get involved in a shooting, odds are you will be sued, either by the person you’ve shot, or their surviving family members. You should also assume that, no matter how clear cut a case of self-defense it was, that you will be put in handcuffs at the scene, arrested, and treated by the authorities like a criminal.”
Not in Texas.
Judged by 12 or carried by 6.
Thank you skiddles!
Amen to that. Some parts of the country you just don’t want to live in, any act of defense will get you jail time.
The writer is probably from the North East, and has little knowledge of Free America.
And so he called 9-11 to make sure they would know who did it??
And we ABSOLUTELY KNOW there was a battle.
And where did the guys who did the voice printing and saying it was Tray screaming...despite the fact that they had no comparable print of either party. Those guys should go to jail.
Why didn’t Trayvon call 911?
Good question!!!
“no matter how clear cut a case of self-defense it was, that you will be put in handcuffs at the scene, arrested, and treated by the authorities like a criminal.”
I would not call Zimmerman’s case a “clear cut case of self-defense.” It’s only “clear cut” is you take his word on everything, which the criminal justice system will not do in the case where there is someone who’s dead.
Freedom always has a price. If you love your life and your family's lives and you are committed to defending them, don't hesitate just because the police are going to put you in handcuffs or your adversary's family might sue you.
Do your duty and don't whine.
It is my understanding that some states provide immunity from civil lawsuits in cases involving justified self defense shootings.
Super good question
It’s pretty hard not to take his word...he’s on the phone with 9-11, got smashed up from the fight. This is hardly someone looking to shoot someone.
That was how the media and the race-hustlers originally protrayed the case. From reading comments about the shooting in many different papers and on-line forums, I'd say a great percentage of Black people and libs still believe that narrative: Zimmerman saw an innocent black kid walking through his neighborhood and simply ran up to him and shot him down in cold blood. These people don't want to believe any other narrative. Even when confronted with facts. The "black kid gets shot down in cold blood by an evil white guy" narrative fits their image of how they see the Black experience. They don't want to be bothered with truth and reality.
Nor in Michigan.
.and speed dial your atty to meet you there! What?! You carry a gun and DON'T have a knowledgable criminal defense atty on your speed dial?! Get with it! Take an atty to lunch and put on retainer....... Might be the best money ever spent. If you can't afford one, I foresee a lot of people illegally ( but justifiably) carrying "drop guns" in the post railroading Zimmerman fiasco.
Not in PA either. Got Castle Doctrine last year.
Or Maryland.
I see comments above about not in my state. Don’t think that it can’t happen. Anyone who is involved in a shooting should be prepared for anything. The first rule should be to not try to defend yourself to the responding officers. It is not their job to determine your guilt or innocence.
Just show them the victim and the gun and GET A LAWYER before saying anything. There is a druggist sitting in prison here in Oklahoma that although I believe that is guilty after seeing the evidence, made his case much harder to defend by talking to the police without a lawyer. I also believe that in his mind he thought what he did was justified.
If he just shot some guy dead, you would not expect him to try to color his story to his favor?
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