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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Ummm, depending on the situation. Yes you ####ing should.
The second that someone poses no risk to you, others or your property, you no longer should have any rights to kill them.
But again, the whole defense in this case was the accidental discharge. Mr. Stanley did not discharge the firearm because he felt he needed to. His position, whether it's the truth or not, was that the discharge was an accident as a result of hangfire due to the earlier warning shots.
At no point, ever, did Mr. Stanley claim that he fired the shot that killed Colton to protect his family or property. That wasn't his mindset. Ironically, he probably should have had that mindset considering the loaded gun but he was unaware of it at the time.
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Well of course not, because he claims it is a hangfire.
However, self defense runs through this case entirely right up until the final discharge of the gun. He said that he feared for his life and that of his family, thought that these guys may have ran over his wife because she was out mowing the lawn and they ran their car over the mower. He states that pretty clearly.
That is why the situation escalated, that is why he brought out the gun and that is why he fired 2 warning shots into the ground and tried to fire a 3rd. The jury chose to believe that Stanley's actions were reasonable given the situation.
If this had happened in a nightclub, we'd see a radically different result and likely a conviction.