Stand Your Ground Law

[GMDino]

(07-25-2018, 02:44 AM)Beaker Wrote: That's because he is not an innocent victim, and therefore, not blameless. He should not have felt entitled enough to illegally park in a handicap space. Nor should his first course of action been physical assault.

On the other hand the shooter deserves blame for appointing himself parking police, accosting the gf, and using deadly force as his first course of action.

Blame where blame is due.

I guess I just don't think anything the victim did meant he should have been shot...which, every time another "thing the victim did to be in that situation" is mentioned I see it as blaming the victim for being there and getting shot.

For example:  Man gets hit by a car.  the circumstances are he was running down the middle of the road at night in all black and trying to jump cars.  did he "deserve to get hit?  No.  Did he do something that made it extremely likely he was going to get hit?  Yes.  He deserves some blame for doing something that resulted in him being hit.  We should have discussions telling people to not do what he did.

Man parks in the wrong space and pushes a guy who is yelling at the mother of his children gets shot.  Did he deserve to get shot? No.  Did he do something that made it likely he would be shot? No.  All of the blame for shooting and killing another human being falls on the coward/tough guy with the gun.