“Instead he’s going to let her come out of the store into the midst of a gun battle that he starts????”
marktwain replies:
Your hypothetical does not fit either of the accounts being put forward.
In Dunn’s account, he did not start the gun battle, he responded to a threat.
In the account put forward by unknown associats of Jordan’s, there was no gun battle.
And the facts of the threat were???? that's right -- there is no evidence of such.
And I'm sure that the ME is testing the kid's hands for gun residue as well to be sure.
He asked them to turn it down. At first they did, Ms. Lemonidis said. But then they turned the volume back up and began cursing him.
How did he hear that cursing and any threat over that loud music that they just turned back up.
When he saw the shotgun and heard the threat, Mr. Dunn reached into his glove compartment, unholstered his Taurus 9-millimeter gun and fired two rounds into the back seat, and then two more. As the car with the teenagers pulled out, he feared they would try to shoot back, so he fired four more shots, his lawyer said.
The only threat here was Dunn and he was a threat to the people in this car and the public safety. He fired first. He was the only one who fired. And he fired last.
It sounds to me that if those in the other car had had a weapon that they would have been justified in shooting him as he was the real threat here -- but they didn't because they either did not have a weapon or showed more restraint than the licensed gunowner here.