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In reply to the discussion: Stand Your Ground? Texas man kills teacher over noise complaint [View all]dpibel
(2,803 posts)You say: "At about 1.14, this shows the altercation with the three who got shot after approaching Rodriguez in a menacing way and threatening to have a shoot-out with him."
Did you forget the part about Rodriguez being the one who was standing there with a gun threatening to shoot?
I question your perspective if you think he was the one being menaced.
In your world, if you're faced with a maniac with a gun who is telling you he's going to shoot, you have an affirmative duty to say, "I'm not armed"? That's the only reasonable inference from your statement that, although one of the drunks said he was going to go back to his house and get a gun, Rodriguez was still in reasonable fear of his life because the other two didn't say, "And by the way, we don't have guns on us, either"?
I think you are being disingenuous.
I looked at the video. It certainly appears from it that a Texas man killed a teacher over a noise complaint.
So far, being a rowdy drunk is still not a capital crime. If it were, Texas would fast be depopulated. Even if it were, a guy with a gun reciting CCW buzzwords actually doesn't constitute due process.