Political correctness run amok.
Socialist government. That says it all. How dare anybody defend themselves. If they start thinking like that, pretty soon they’ll start thinking they don’t need the gangster-socialists to run their lives, and turn those weapons on the government-gangsters.
The shopkeeper shot the thief in the back as the thief was fleeing on a motorbike. Odd that the Blaze does not mention that detail. Or maybe it's not so odd.
Anyway, I'd have a hard time convicting the shopkeeper. He was terrified, I'm sure. And it was not the shopkeeper who put all of this in motion. It was the thief.
Nice in the 80’s was awesome.
Sort of like a French Miami with rocky beaches, but at least the guys were straight :-)
even in the People’s Repulik of Maryland one can still lawfully shoot a fleeing felon ... and these people were certainly fleeing felons
now proving to His Majesty OweMalley and his merry band of misfits that you were simply following the law is another story so I don’t recommend that action
IIRC, the thief was already making his escape on a motor scooter and the jeweler shot him in the back.
With the possible exception of Texas (OOH-RAH! Texas!), shooting a thief in the back will get you jailed anywhere, Stand Your Ground or no.
No, because SYG wouldn’t have applied in the French case. From what I understand, it was more of a “Joe Horn” scenario, where the store owner chased the thieves and shot them while they were escaping.