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Originally Posted by speede5
Of course it affects the overall picture. That's the intent of mentioning it over and over.
The amount of times I have heard drunk armed thugs in this conversation (all over the web) is crazy. Stanley did not see drunk armed thugs. No one assaulted them before the shot was fired.
I'm not saying they were there selling cookies but it is easy to sway opinion when you paint a picture.
Country kids drink on the backroads and get into all sorts of trouble, white or native. From all accounts that's what Stanley was dealing with. Drunk kids/young adults. When the bullets started flying they were running, which was the desired result, but they weren't fighting.
It's only after that we see a checkered past and people rest easy because thank god they had gangster pics on social media.
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The background of Boushie and the others aside, he wasn't simply dealing with drunk kids.
When he fired the warning shots, he believed that he was dealing with a vehicle full of thieves who had just tried to steal two of his vehicles and had used theirs to run over and pin his wife. The gun was never intentionally pointed at anyone and he believed that it was unloaded when he approached the car to turn it off.
Even not knowing that he was in fact dealing with a group of intoxicated adults who were in the process of committing armed robberies, the law allows for his actions. People who are saying that "life is more important than property" are missing the point entirely. Not only was Boushie not shot intentionally, Stanley didn't get his gun out in response to straight property theft.