So if you push me to the ground because I am accosting your significant other in a parking lot over a parking violation, I would have the right to shoot you?
I'm really hoping you just don't understand the circumstances and aren't that stupid
Who's fit to decide when deadly force is necessary? Do you need to be female or elderly or a minority to feel threatened at a specific point? Or can everyone feel the same way? In other, that law is deliberately vague for the reasons the castle laws in other states aren't: those laws tie your hands to either the intruder being inside your house or threatening you with deadly force themselves. Chasing after they with a gun, for instance, is prosecutable. With Stand your Ground, they left it up to technology (like cameras, which were used in that article against the shooter), eyewitnesses, and old-fashioned detective work to decide whether it was justified or not, rather that a law that straitjackets them into arresting everyone who might be just below the threshold for using deadly life (as with the house-related SYG laws).
The article gives it away: The dindu who got blasted parked in a handicap spot he had no right to park it in, was asked to move, and got an attitude (and a bullet).
“He told deputies that he had to shoot to defend himself. Those are the facts and that’s the law,” he said. “No matter how you slice it or dice it that was a violent push to the ground.”
The dispute began when Drejka began arguing with McGlockton’s girlfriend, Britany Jacobs, 25, because she was parked in a handicapped parking space without a permit. With her were two of their children, a 3-year-old and a 4-month old.
McGlockton got involved when he came out of the store with his 5-year-old son.
The complaint stated that detectives recorded the crime scene with a 3D scanner showing that the distance between Drejka and McGlockton at the time of the shooting was about 12 feet.
It also stated that the findings of the autopsy were consistent with the video footage of the shooting in which McGlockton appeared to be turning away from Drejka when he was shot.
