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Does anybody think this guy has a legitimate case for self defense?

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    • #10762
      Dallas Williams
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      Nobody can say for sure this man wasn’t in his own little mind in fear for his life at the time he shot at these kids, but from what I’ve seen and read if you look at it from a reasonable person’s perspective then it looks more like an asshole who was just pissed off because they wouldn’t turn down their music and running their mouth at him and shot them. What is even more incriminating is how he behaved after the incident he fled the scene didn’t call police and went back to his hotel with his girlfriend and ordered pizza like nothing happened. People are comparing this to the George Zimmerman case but George was not only reasonably and clearly threatened but physically attacked and had the wounds to prove it and was therefore justified in using force, even lethal force, to defend his life. All we have to go on in this case is just that this man claims and believes to have been threatened and felt he had no choice but to open fire. Even if he felt threatened he still had a means to retreat but didn’t take it and he still continued firing on the vehicle even as it was fleeing. I’m all for second amendment rights, but there are some people who are just too mentally unstable, short tempered, and irresponsible to own a gun.

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      Dallas Williams
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      I don’t really think he does from what you said. My iPhone won’t pull that site up. Look kids play loud music and talk crap like they own the world. From the sound of it he could have walked away from this. Did he see any weapons on them? What exactly did they tell him? Why the hell did he not stay and call the cops? Or at least run to a safe spot and call them. From the above info he does not have a self defense claim unless he gets a really really good lawyer. Remember kids how you act after the fact tells A LOT about the situation.

    • #13527
      Dallas Williams
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      Well the site isn’t loading up on my computer now either, but the way the story goes at least from what we know is he was on his way back from his son’s wedding and went to this gas station to get gas and this car full of four teens pull up beside him to get gas also and they have rap music blasting at full volume. He asks them to turn the music down but instead they just turn it up louder and according to him he said he heard one of them say “Let’s kill this bitch!” He then says he saw movement in the car and what he thought what appeared to be the barrel of a gun through the window so he starts shooting at them but they don’t shoot back and after he’s already shot at them four times they start driving away and he shoots at them four more times, in the process killing one of the kids and injuring another. He just said he was scared so he went back to his hotel and was hungry and ordered a pizza. And police said they never found any weapons in the other car or evidence any of them even had a weapon. Like you said I can’t stand rap music myself but if I’m at a gas station getting gas I just get my gas and pay for it and leave so I’m not gonna start shit with somebody just because I don’t like their music or think it’s too loud and it’s not like I’m gonna be there for more than a few minutes anyway. If anything I’ll turn up my Motorhead or Slayer or Pantera that much louder myself :)! And what’s worse is this guy’s white and the kids in the other car were all black so the media is gonna have field day with this trying to keep the race war going too.

    • #13528

      Yep the media is having fun with this one.

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