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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Nobody is ever willing to de-escalate a situation, are they?
Couldn't buddy have just said "Oh sorry, I was just texting my daughter and will put my phone away now." Situation over. Instead he obviously puts up a fit and ends up getting shot.
Yeah, dumb, and the guy should go to jail, but what a dumb situation.
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Its an uncontrollable situation in that you have a guy with a gun that is either an over aggressive hopped up moron, or a person with serious mental challenges. And if you look at the whole thing, he came back to the popcorn thrower looking for a fight and he was carrying a gun.
I doubt the stand your ground is going to stand up, especially since it sounds like the ex-cop was looking for trouble, and it was freaking popcorn.
His defense team should be looking at some kind of mental incapacity defense. Frankly though this would be the gun lobbies worst nightmare if he's found mentally incapacitated and he has legal ownership of a handgun. It would hopefully create a wave of challenges towards how guns can be purchased.
I wonder if Obama is going to make a speech that the victim could be his brother or son or whatever. If he's serious about gun control reform he's got to jump on all of these and not just pick and choose.