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and i smell a troll

I remember this this case,a racist mob chased this mans son to his house and tried to storm it after he was falsely accused of harassing a white girl at a party.

IMHO the man should have used a 12ga shotgun not a pistol

you are siding with them because they are black which makes you a racist and an idiot.

no I'm siding with them becase people of any race have the right to defend themselves from violent bigoted mobs

the racist here is you

From the article: "The victim and four friends approached Mr White's home to confront his teenage son, Aaron, believing he had threatened a friend with rape in an Internet chat room. The girl later recanted the claim."

I would lean toward a sympathetic response to just about anything a man did on his property that could be interpreted as protecting himself or his family against a superior number of drunk, angry, and rowdy teenagers. The details matter, but they had no business on his property and such a situation could easily cross the line beyond which armed self-defense was a reasonable response.

Continuing the article: "Mr Spota said a court, upheld by an appellate court, agreed that a reasonable person wouldn't have believed deadly force was needed that hot summer night."

My question is whether a reasonable person could have reached that decision while outnumbered by a bunch of angry drunks in the available time and with mere inches separating him from the nearest belligerent. I don't know the answer to that question, and I would have to read the trial testimony in detail before I was happy with either answer. Again, however, I have significant sympathy for the homeowner confronting multiple drunken intruders on his property.