If I had a gun and some angry hooligan teenagers came after my son, I would confront them.
Even if you could easily lock yourself in your secure home and call the police?
Then you would be found guilty as well....the law is clear on this.
The crowd of white kids outside was unarmed, according to the articles....they were only making drunken noise.
Going outside with a drawn gun into a situation like that suggests a profound ignorance of the law on the part of Mr. White, and ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking it.
Lock your home. Call the police.
Do not go outside and display a weapon.
If they break into your house, or do something to endanger you in the house, such as shoot into your house or try to set fire to it, or you are stopping them from committing (but not just from escaping from) a felony such as stealing your car (not just vandalizing it) from your property/driveway (not the street); shoot them.
And shoot an unarmed kid IN THE FACE ?
If he hadn't come up with that tripe about the stories of lynch mobs, etc., he might have been able to make a case. I would guess the story was a desperate attempt to justify what he knew was a huge overreaction to some tipsy teens and the jury figured it out too.
So would I. No mercy for hools.
Neither the man nor his son was in danger of violence at the time he grabbed his gun and went outside. By his going outside with a gun, he escalated a noisy drunken tirade into a deadly encounter
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If they were outside in the street or even on your lawn and you came outside with the gun then you would be guilty of a criminal act. If one of the teenagers ended up dead then you would go to jail.
If they tried to forcibly enter your house then you could shoot them all without fear of legal complications.
Another post of yours says that you live on LI. You should know the laws where you live.