yup, kids are always unpredictable...
Posted on 05/25/2010 4:58:51 AM PDT by marktwain
Arming yourself and calling 911 isn’t the same as going out to the edge of your property and shooting someone who is yelling at your kid. What do you think they would do to a white guy(and what kind of press there would be)who shot a 17 yo black kid simply because he was trying to get his son to fight? This guy was NOT justified and he is lucky they didn’t charge him with first degree murder.
If it is four on one, my life is in danger and I will react accordingly. If the law isn’t on my side, then the three S’s apply.
Here's one who made it impossible for them to cover it up.
‘If it is four on one, my life is in danger and I will react accordingly.”
Not until you go outside.
“If the law isn’t on my side, then the three S’s apply.”
Murder
If they were "sitting in the car" that does change the situation, I agree. When it said they "arrived in two cars" I was seeing them out of the cars on the edge of the property.
I have no idea who Quentin Taratino is. I was thinking more of Charles Bronson.
As far as "does not give anyone the right" in Texas, I'd recommend you don't try it here, especially at night. Threatening people with bodily harm IS assault. Threatening ARMED people is stupid (and in this case fatal) assault.
There was a guy is Dallas who shot a guy who was attempting to steal his car unsuccessfully. The perp ran away. The owner pulled his pistol from his truck, chased him down the street and shot him dead. It was the middle of the day. He was no-billed.
In New York he'd have been in deep do-do. Not in Texas. His position was seen as perfectly justifiable.
You can’t kill someone for sitting in the car and running their mouth. Not in Texas, NY or anywhere else in this country. There is a law against doing that.... its called “murder”.
Race had everything to do with this case. Most of all, what had the black boy done to provoke this - the statement said the son came running into the house around 11PM. Furthermore, I know for a fact that if black boys came to fight, they would have settled this or street fought. The father took the law into his own hands, which is against the law.
yup, kids are always unpredictable...
“When the law protects multiple attackers inflicting great bodily harm on the victims property, then there is no choice but to go outside the law.”
There was no great bodily harm being done, only words. A fist fight fight does not constitute ‘great bodily harm’.
The law in most places protects against anyone inflicting great bodily harm. The law does not protect against murder, nor does morality.
Four on one on one’s own property isn’t a fistfight.
They weren’t on his property, they were on the street. His son was in no danger. He was in no danger until he walked out to shoot the kid.
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