The shooting is once again raising debate over what’s considered self defense
I stopped reading here as the details of the case ARE NOT relevant to the definition of self defense.
The right to self defense exists under our laws.It is clearly defined and spelled out in those laws.
The details only become relevant if the local DA has reason to question those details and then it could become a debate for a jury.
All that said I have an instictive right to self defense that only I can decide what it is or is not.
What does the bumper sticker say? Rather tried by 12 then carried by 6?
No police officer,no judge ,no jury is going to be standing next to you when the time comes for you to decide if you live or die or if some other person lives or dies. If your wife or kids live or die or the neighbors kids lives or dies.
You have a split second to make that decision on your own.
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.
“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an upraised knife.”
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes