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Originally Posted by 81MC
If you run down the street to get away and I pursue you, catching up to you in an alley, damn right your actions are self defence. Otherwise, what protection is afforded to someone who is being attacked?
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Should there not be a provision for 'reasonable force?'
Lets assume for a moment that he was pursued and 'attacked.' One guy had a plastic bag, another guy had a skateboard.
It stands to reason that their ability to inflict lethal harm upon was limited at best. Certainly not so much as someone with a rifle.
Further, they are likely reacting in fear to someone wandering around with a gun. Now in the dark and the heat of the moment, that looks like an assault rifle. To someone not well versed in guns, it looks like something a soldier would carry.
So yeah, that gun probably scared the ever-loving #### out of them and they reacted out of fear. Fear that he instilled. On purpose.
Remove the AR15 from that night and nobody ever hears the name of Kyle Rittenhouse.