Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Don't Ignore the Evidence: Stand Your Ground Is Bad for Florida [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Your posts are always against anyone who uses a gun in self-defense. Here is a link to details of the Nussbaumer shooting: http://www.northescambia.com/2012/01/state-attorney-reserve-trooper-justified-in-shooting-naked-armed-invader
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The State Attorney says a reserve Florida Highway Patrol trooper was justified when she shot and killed her neighbor, who was naked and armed with a bow and arrow, after a home invasion in Escambia County.
So he was armed. Single you will likely try to minimize his armament, remember Agincourt. Since you are a Brit you should be well familiar with the English armament of that battle and what it did to the French knights.
A Medical Examiners report said the deceased man, Sean Thomas Harris had cocaine, cannabis, opiates, methadone and amphetamines in his blood at the time of the shooting.
Doesn't sound like he is going to be rational, does it?
Reserve Trooper Tabbatha Nussbaumer was in the shower in her upstairs bedroom in the Scenic Heights neighborhood area when her 9-year-old son ran in and told her a man he didnt recognize was in the house. Nussbaumer exited her room and was confronted by Harris, who was at the bottom of the stairs holding a bow and arrow.
He was an armed home invader.
Nussbaumer told Pensacola Police that Harris asked her where the money was located. In an effort to get the suspect out of her house and away from her son, she told him it was in her truck parked on the street. As she exited the front door, Harris followed, removed his clothes and approached her as she was at her vehicle, which was parked in the street.
She managed to trick him exiting the house to follow her. But he is between her and the house, naked but still armed, and advancing toward her. He has the opportunity to gravely harm her, has the ability to gavely harm her, and is demonstrating the intent to rape her. Opportunity, ability, and an overt demonstration of intent meet the classic, legal definition of the requirement for self-defense.
Police said Nussbaumer removed a handgun from the truck, turned around and faced Harris, who was standing a few feet from her. She said that she ordered him to the ground, but Harris instead advanced toward her, and she fired one shot.
She tried to hold him at gunpoint but he wasn't having any of it. With his mind blown my a drug cocktail, that isn't surprising. She tried your suggested non-violent solution but it didn't work. Only then did she shoot.
Naturally you side with a drug addled, armed home invading, would be rapist.