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Would this be considered self-defense?


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BEFORE LOOKING AT THE COMMENTS, what do you think?

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No, not self defense. You can't shoot someone multiples times for taking a swing at you and the guy had no weapon. Had the other guy been armed it would be a different story. Once the other person is no longer a threat you cant continue shooting.

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I thought the whole point of the castle-defense was if you feel your life was threatened you can just shoot away with glee.

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You dont even know the law? Are you american?

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I don’t think this happened in America. I believe it happened in Costa Rica. Who knows what the law is there but it does not look to me that deadly force was reasonably required. What I find interesting is how the two wives really initiated and escalated the physical confrontation of the men.

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Does the castle doctrine even exist outside the U.S.? He brought it up thats why I asked if he was american.

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Understood. What’d you think of the two women gesticulating wildly and appearing to scream and get the husbands’ blood boiling? I see videos like this from time to time where the women have presumed they are immune from the violence and get the men to fight. Now one husband will likely be in prison and the other is in the ground

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Sorry but that's not how it works.

All the castle doctrine does is eliminate the "duty to retreat". Contrary to retarded democrat rhetoric, it is not a license to kill.

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I felt glee watching the thug being blown away.

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I think it is self defense because a thug being killed is not as bad as his victim getting a bloody nose.

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It looks like a premeditated execution to me

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If you want 1st gut reaction? No, not SD.

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The guy that got shot put himself in a bad position by entering the other guy's property and taking the first swing.

The shooter might have had legal justifiction for the first shot.

Standing over they guy and firing some more? IMO, crossed a line somewhere there.

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No, not proportional self-defense.

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I don't only recognize proportional self defense. If a thug attacks an innocent person be it with gun, knife, bat or fist their victim has a natural right to kill them dead.

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No, probably not. He would certainly argue he felt his life was threatened but it'd be tough for a jury to believe it. Dipshit should not have crossed the property line (or appears to be) and initiated the physical confrontation but you can't shoot somebody just for taking a swing at you. It'd be different if there were three or more attackers. The prosecution would argue that checking his gun seconds before he used it implies a wee bit premeditation.

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