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In reply to the discussion: Man Kills Attacker at Northeast Dallas Convenience Store in Stand-Your-Ground-Style Shooting [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)35. It's very well managed, it's just expensive.
I'm hoping that will improve now that ACA has been cleared.
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jpak
Jul 2012
OP
Fine. Take the gun out of the situation. Drunk guy starts beating on innocent person
Common Sense Party
Jul 2012
#66
Shooter DID retreat, drunk chased him, still punching him. Not murder - Self defense.
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2012
#72
Going on a drunken rampage and punching out strangers carries a risk of getting shot
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#3
If he was a diabetic suffering from low blood sugar - would this be justified as well?
jpak
Jul 2012
#5
Sorry about your wife. I hope she has it well-managed. I know several diabetics, both 1s and 2s.
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#10
Yes. A mentally impaired person trying to kill you is still trying to kill you.
NewMoonTherian
Jul 2012
#7
It's just an extremely weak attempt at distraction, something jpak often treats us to
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#11
So you downgrade the criminal's Assault & Battery to "looks at me cross-eyed"?
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2012
#46
Our late Canadian zampolit was *far* better at excusing criminal behavior then you'll ever be:
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2012
#62
Laugh away while you become the anti-gun poo flinger with a losing track record.
aikoaiko
Jul 2012
#82
From the standpoint of his victim, it doesn't matter what his problem is.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#57
I'm a type one diabetic as is my son and neither of us has ever punched anyone out when
rl6214
Jul 2012
#69
You might see it differently had the drunk person been one of your children or a person who
ladjf
Jul 2012
#21
You might see it differently if the drunk person had been attacking one of your children or a person
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#24
Both of our statements could well be true. My point was that had the drunkard been well
ladjf
Jul 2012
#25
We had something along those lines happen to us when we first moved into Wash DC
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#79
I would probably be remorseful that my child, who I equipped to deal with the world
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#58
So you would have shot the man because you thought that perhaps he might beat or kill
ladjf
Jul 2012
#23
Perhaps I misread the post. I wasn't aware that the shooter was being assaulted. nt
ladjf
Jul 2012
#60
Self defense isn't an exercise of extra-judicial power. It is just self defense. Try again.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#59
not this Individual's fault that society failed the Drunk. Society needs to put in place
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#76
Seems like the usual type of highly suspect sources that the anti-gun religionists use.
Clames
Jul 2012
#56
Why didn't the guy getting beaten by the drunk just respond to him in a strong, authoritative voice?
Common Sense Party
Jul 2012
#68