Posted on 05/04/2014 9:26:54 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
When Jere Hilland teaches you how to defend yourself, he always preaches using "reasonable force."
"In other words, if someone punches you in the nose, you can punch them in the nose," said Hilland, who has taught firearms classes in North Dakota for 10 years. "But you can't keep punching them in the nose. That's excessive force."
That's where Hilland guesses Byron Smith went wrong. Smith was found guilty Tuesday of premeditated murder after fatally shooting two teenagers who entered his home in Little Falls, Minn., on Thanksgiving Day 2012.
Smith, who admitted shooting the teens "more times than I should have," used excessive force, Hilland said, and so he was not protected by law.
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I’ll stand by my contention that these “children” were criminals in training.
LOL, OK, I don’t think anyone cares.
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