Another shot of bleach in the gene pool "or" I love a happy ending.

[femurphy77]

Road rager stops in mid traffic to threaten the wrong man: Fatal road rage shooting began with motorcyclist pointing gun at man and kids, police say (yahoo.com)

 

[d.kaufman]

Sounds like a good shoot to me with what details are in the article

 

[actaeon277]

Sometimes idiots with a gun, think they are the only ones with a gun.

 

[Southbendfamily]

**** around and find out, ... guess he found out.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

I always look forward to the comments on these kinds of stories. This was what popped up when I clicked comments


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Just a guess, but I’m guessing majority of comments were supporting the SUV driver and calling it a good shoot... and everyone knows yahoo can’t allow that so they shut the comments down.

 

[BigRed]

Out of curiosity, would the self defense apply had the driver simply plowed his SUV into the thug holding a gun on him and threatening his life?

 

[actaeon277]

A line from a character in a book series I read.

"Why is it that people like you always think you're more ruthless than people like me?"
(Said to the "bad guy" right before dropping a Kenetic Energy Weapon)

 

[Alamo]

Out of curiosity, would the self defense apply had the driver simply plowed his SUV into the thug holding a gun on him and threatening his life?

AFAIK deadly force is deadly force. If it's justified, it's justified.

 

[Ingomike]

It sucks that the left wing media always have to add that the defensive shooter "was not arrested" as if that was unusual...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Some of those with guns, or F-15s, believe that they are the only person in the world with a gun.

 

[Ark]

Out of curiosity, would the self defense apply had the driver simply plowed his SUV into the thug holding a gun on him and threatening his life?

You can never control for exactly the angle that a prosecutor would try to work, but in the theory of the law the weapon of deadly force is mostly irrelevant. If you are justified in shooting someone, you are generally justified in hitting them with a bat. Vehicles have been used as defensive tools many times. There are even examples of police using cruisers as deadly force tools against armed assailants.

 

[JCSR]

 

[BigRed]

You can never control for exactly the angle that a prosecutor would try to work, but in the theory of the law the weapon of deadly force is mostly irrelevant. If you are justified in shooting someone, you are generally justified in hitting them with a bat. Vehicles have been used as defensive tools many times. There are even examples of police using cruisers as deadly force tools against armed assailants.

I would think as much....

Just wondered.

No opinion re the driver that was threatened in this situation.

I have often thought that if some mother ******* piece of **** thug is standing in front of the vehicle I am in control of and my loved ones are in while threatening us with a firearm, I would likely move past drawing a firearm.

 

[Tombs]

Out of curiosity, would the self defense apply had the driver simply plowed his SUV into the thug holding a gun on him and threatening his life?

I think it's an issue of collateral risk. If you hit what you're aiming at, you aren't really endangering many people around you.

If you go swerving around full throttle with an SUV on a roadway... Well, it's not hard to imagine what could come of that, unintentionally.

 

[BigRed]

I think it's an issue of collateral risk. If you hit what you're aiming at, you aren't really endangering many people around you.

If you go swerving around full throttle with an SUV on a roadway... Well, it's not hard to imagine what could come of that, unintentionally.

Again, I do not know the details of the situation in the event.

I can, however, visualize a situation where some piece of **** ******* thug is standing in front of a vehicle I am in control of while threatening my life.

I can visualize a situaition where I would deem plowing the mother ****** with the vehicle would be a better alternative than sending rounds.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Road rager stops in mid traffic to threaten the wrong man: Fatal road rage shooting began with motorcyclist pointing gun at man and kids, police say (yahoo.com)

[Sniff sniff, wipes away tears!]

I just love a happy ending!!!

 

[Spear Dane]

I always look forward to the comments on these kinds of stories. This was what popped up when I clicked comments


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Just a guess, but I’m guessing majority of comments were supporting the SUV driver and calling it a good shoot... and everyone knows yahoo can’t allow that so they shut the comments down.

Oh that's been in place since last year. Maybe since September? Long enough I don't think they ever intend to turn them back on.

 

[littletommy]

I’m sure the thug, err, uh, young man that got smoked was just late for his quantum physics class at the local university, which would account for his extreme reaction to someone getting in his way. It’s not a cakewalk when you’re turning your life around! You people are sadistic!

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Oh that's been in place since last year. Maybe since September? Long enough I don't think they ever intend to turn them back on.

Oh. You can tell how often I read yahoo

 

[Angrysauce]

Out of curiosity, would the self defense apply had the driver simply plowed his SUV into the thug holding a gun on him and threatening his life?

If the use of lethal force is justified it doesn't matter if he used a gun, the car, or a swarm of angry bees.