Posted on 03/02/2022 12:24:31 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
It looks like he was already shot before he stepped back. That would be game-over right there, with a Darwin prize award to the winner.
It is the second shot after he stepped back that is questionable.
Second place award in the game is a trip to jail.
"The only winning move is not to play." (War Games, 1983)
On the other hand, my window would not have been down, and I have trained, and trained my family, how to accelerate out of situation. There seemed to be room on the left to go around and get out of his range.
Having the window down was a bad idea.
He attacked, he had the option to keep his distance, now he’s dead.
That's a threat; you bless the dead.
This!
X 1000
Lifestyles (I hate that word)
Since I am retired (2007) I can live where ever I want (As long as there is a couple of feet of water under the keel.)
We've spent the past ten years in the islands of Southeast Alaska.
Everyone is armed for bear. Literally. We feel very safe. Most people here leave their keys in the car and have long forgotten where the front door key to the house is.
We have been spending the Winters in a very small town on an island with perhaps fifty miles of paved road. There are no strangers and, as I mentioned, everybody is packing.
“The guy withdrew his arm from the car and stepped back a foot or two. You don’t have any justification to shoot him then.“
Sounds like he saw the gun and backed off.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make angry.
Stupid should hurt immediately. And in this case, it did. No f'n sympathy.
I wouldn’t vote to convict. Clear case of defending self, the guy reached into the car while screaming. I bet this guy was involved in many risky road rage incidents.
Blacked out window quick on a trigger.
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That, by itself. is a crime in Illinois.
Spoken like a road-rager who can’t control themselves and blames others for their actions.
No, it's just a logical observation. I don't rage at anybody. However, if you constantly are the target of rage, you might want to think about how you are driving.
Road rage happens to everybody at some point.
Just being on the Interstate in the slow lane going 5 mph OVER the speed limit causes the mentally imbalanced to lose their mind. There are a good bit of mentally imbalanced turds out there who should not even be driving.
Folks have problems following the law, their lack of self-control, their absence of caring for the safety and well-being of others on the road - they don’t own the road, but drive as if they do. That’s a road rager - a selfish, worthless excuse for a human being.
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