Perfect example of why people should always
carry a gun.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we’ll bring a gun.”
- Barry 0bama, June 13, 2008, Philadelphia
Looks like SYG. But will MSM
show it as a good example?
Does it matter to them since
the woman was black? Will
O-Loser say that could have
been his wife?
Actually, the author at LegalInsurrection makes a pretty good case it’s just classic self-defense, not SYG at all. Everybody is treating them as the same thing and they are not. The law is like a flow chart, with exceptions and counter-exceptions all tripping on various combinations of conditions. SYG is only for a special subcategory of self-defense scenario, where an objectively safe means of retreat was available and the would-be victim opts not to retreat. In cases where you can argue there was no *safe* means of escape, and that was when you elected to use deadly force to defend yourself, that is NOT a SYG scenario. That is the main line of the classical self-defense flow chart. The LegalInsurrection writer argues that this case meets scenario meets the “no safe escape” criteria as traditionally applied, so the shooter has no need of the SYG law.
BTW, I was unaware of (or possibly forgetful of) this distinction myself until recently, when O’Mara opted not to use it for Z. So the confusion is very common. Some on the left who should know better seem to be conflating the two anyway. I suppose it gives them a convenient boogeyman to attack classic self-defense using guns, because the real objective isn’t some narrow self-defense exception, its degrading the 2A, root and branch, and along with that to turn us all into Euro-wimps who would rather die than fight, because fighting back, especially with guns, would make us such mean people. Truly psychotic.