DISQUS

dave · 1 year ago

I'll take "participate in a self-defense shooting anywhere in the commonwealth of Massachusetts" for $1000 Alex!

Pauley · 1 year ago

Probably very correct, but not what I was looking for. Think less legality and more fundamental. Out of my regular readers, you're one of a few I expect to figure it out. :-D

-- Pauley

freekofnature · 1 year ago

Ummm, he started talking with the hold-up guy.
very dangerous.

There was a very famous case, a few years ago in NYC where this famous Psychiatrist was in his apartment when he heard someone ring the doorbell - buzzer. Not wanting to answer the door for someone he assumed was trying to sell something, he Ignored it. A few minutes later he heard someone fiddleing with the door lock. He pulled a loaded .45 automatic out of a drawer next to the door and as soon as the armed break-in guy came in he shot him dead at point-blank range. At the inquest, he was exonerated, via "self-defence" At said inquest he was asked why he, being a Psychiatrist and all, didn't try to reason with the guy and try and talk him out of it!
His reply: Are you crazy? You cannot reason with someone like that, in that situation, and besides then I would lose any claim to a self-defence justification, and be liable for a murder charge myself!
When you are assaulted by an armed attacker, you use equivalent force first and ask questions later!

Pauley · 1 year ago

No one seems to have figured it out yet. I'll give it another day. :)

-- Pauley

k4 · 1 year ago

He didn't aim center-of-mass and empty the clip?

Pauley · 1 year ago

...aaaaaaaand the win! You got it. :)

-- Pauley