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To: Partisan Gunslinger
A man comes out with a gun and tells you to leave his property, you leave.

You would leave. I would leave. But who knows what the heck would a 17 year old drunk kid would do?

But it still doesn't change the fact that you cannot shoot someone who isn't threatening you without facing legal charges. Read the entire thread again. I think you missed the big picture. Mr. White ADMITTED to "accidentally" firing the gun. That is manslaughter -- NOT self-defense.

That is what Mr. White got convicted of and it is immaterial what you or I think...

140 posted on 12/23/2007 10:09:55 AM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: John123
But it still doesn't change the fact that you cannot shoot someone who isn't threatening you without facing legal charges. Read the entire thread again. I think you missed the big picture. Mr. White ADMITTED to "accidentally" firing the gun. That is manslaughter -- NOT self-defense. That is what Mr. White got convicted of and it is immaterial what you or I think...

Nothing is immaterial. We're put on this earth to make choices. What his lawyer resorted to in court doesn't matter as far as what happened that night. And I again say that you take a gang to a man's house and threaten his son, your life is in your hands an it's nobody's fault but your own, liberal courts notwithstanding.

153 posted on 12/23/2007 11:32:12 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: John123
Mr. White ADMITTED to "accidentally" firing the gun. That is manslaughter -- NOT self-defense.

That depends on the totality of the circumstances. If having the gun pointed at the intruders was legitimate, then just because the actor did not intend to pull the trigger it doesn't turn a legitimate action into manslaughter.

I can easily see the AD occurring when, depending on whose version one believes, the punk lunged at Mr. White, or tried to slap the gun away.

161 posted on 12/23/2007 12:03:36 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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