Not Self-Defense (graphic)
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@ivorythumper said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
the argument is that R is already violent and hostile, and C has a right to defend his GF and self and property.
Completely agree, but I don't agree that he needed to step over options 1 through 9 before jumping to option 10 of shooting him to death. I know this isn't a legal argument, but it's really hard from that video to think "Oh yeah, he definitely needed to kill that man" since the man gave no indication up until then that he had any violent intent.
@89th said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@ivorythumper said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
the argument is that R is already violent and hostile, and C has a right to defend his GF and self and property.
Completely agree, but I don't agree that he needed to step over options 1 through 9 before jumping to option 10 of shooting him to death. I know this isn't a legal argument, but it's really hard from that video to think "Oh yeah, he definitely needed to kill that man" since the man gave no indication up until then that he had any violent intent.
He should have gone inside and dialed 911. And then maybe positioned himself with his rifle between R and his GF. But none of these are strictly rational actors.
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This is a long, long, video (5 hours!), but bottom line is that this lawyer from Minnesooota thinks that Kyle won't be charged, and if he is, will be acquitted.
Link to videoGo to about 30:00 for what he says is relevant law.
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Mayyyyyyyyybe manslaughter, but I still say murder since he intentionally and knowingly took the man's life.
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Lots of people not caring about their own lives in that video.
I was told here that shooting someone doesn't drop them immediately, like in the movies. But I guess that sometimes it happens like in the movies. Was he hit directly in the heart? What makes someone drop immediately like that, other than a head shot, which this didn't seem to be?
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Lots of people not caring about their own lives in that video.
I was told here that shooting someone doesn't drop them immediately, like in the movies. But I guess that sometimes it happens like in the movies. Was he hit directly in the heart? What makes someone drop immediately like that, other than a head shot, which this didn't seem to be?
@horace said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Lots of people not caring about their own lives in that video.
I was told here that shooting someone doesn't drop them immediately, like in the movies. But I guess that sometimes it happens like in the movies. Was he hit directly in the heart? What makes someone drop immediately like that, other than a head shot, which this didn't seem to be?
That's a very good question. Some people will drop. More will drop from a rifle than from a handgun. Many won't drop at all. Some people will die from wounds they should have survived, while others take killing shots and lived(Trace Adkins woman shot him in the heart).
Been a lot of studies, but no definitive answers.
Go figure
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Yeah, he went down like a rag doll. I'm guessing one of the bullets ripped through his heart.
Ugh, without knowing any other background, it really is sad the father was there to get his kid, his ex was not cooperating with the custody agreement, and he is killed over it unnecessarily.
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Dr Grande weighs in:
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I see both sides of it. If the guy hadn’t gone inside to get his rifle, I don’t believe it would have escalated beyond an argument. At the same time, when the ex grabbed the rifle and tried to pull it away all bets were off. At the particular instant the guy fired the ex wasn’t advancing and didn’t pose a threat, but .3 seconds before that? .3 seconds after that? I wouldn’t want to have to have made that decision.
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I see both sides of it. If the guy hadn’t gone inside to get his rifle, I don’t believe it would have escalated beyond an argument. At the same time, when the ex grabbed the rifle and tried to pull it away all bets were off. At the particular instant the guy fired the ex wasn’t advancing and didn’t pose a threat, but .3 seconds before that? .3 seconds after that? I wouldn’t want to have to have made that decision.
@lufins-dad said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
.3 seconds
That's one of the points that was made by the lawyer in the long, long video (which, admittedly, I didn't watch all the way through. He alluded to the fact that slowing the video down, frame by frame, is distorting reality. That was one of the criticisms he leveled at the prosecution during the Rittenhouse trial.
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I'm sure the victim had 100% certainty the gun dude was just bluffing. No way he would kill someone for standing on their porch looking for his own son, right? No way with all the cameras on them, right? Under that premise, the "grab/push gun out of the way" reaction seems somewhat natural. When the killer stepped back and fired 2 shots into the dude's head/chest (or wherever), I still am shocked he did that. No way he gets off scott free from this... Texas or not.
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@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
I was only joking
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@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
@doctor-phibes said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
I’ve long advocated a licensing system for gun ownership that requires not only adequate safe operation knowledge, but also some demonstration of responsible usage, similar to automobile licensing.
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@doctor-phibes said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
I’ve long advocated a licensing system for gun ownership that requires not only adequate safe operation knowledge, but also some demonstration of responsible usage, similar to automobile licensing.
@lufins-dad said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@doctor-phibes said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
I’ve long advocated a licensing system for gun ownership that requires not only adequate safe operation knowledge, but also some demonstration of responsible usage, similar to automobile licensing.
How about anybody who gets a even the merest suggestion of a hard-on from looking at guns should be prevented from owning one?
That might cut the death-rate down a bit.
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I was listening to a BBC radio show today where somebody pointed out that the British equivalent of the NRA was CAMRA (look it up). The scary point being made was that the membership is even angrier, and pretty much shared their dress-sense.
I'm sure it was a very unfair comparison (in case any NRA members are reading). I have a friend who was the regional president of CAMRA in Lancashire, and will say nothing further on the matter.
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@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
@doctor-phibes said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
@jon-nyc said in Not Self-Defense (graphic):
Imagine how good things would be if no one with an IQ of less than 105 could touch a gun.
Why stop at 105?
Why stop at gun owners, why not the guys who make up gun rules?
You can't make up gun control rules unless your IQ is above 50.
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A Texas man who shot dead his girlfriend's ex-husband as the men argued over child custody will not face criminal charges because the shooting was in self-defense, the Texas Attorney General has announced.
William 'Kyle' Carruth, 39, opened fire on Chad Read, 54, after the two squared up to each other and wrestled over a gun in Lubbock on November 5.
A special grand jury found Carruth will not be charged because the argument was on his property and the shooting was in self-defense, Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday.
Carruth, who is the ex-husband of 72nd District Court Judge Ann-Marie Carruth, was never arrested for the shooting, which his lawyer had argued was a 'justifiable homicide'.
You may be wondering, but what about the grand jury declining to return an indictment? Doesn’t that mean that Carruth’s shooting of Read was legally correct?
I’m afraid not.
The outcome of a grand jury proceeding is largely driven by the prosecutor presenting to that grand jury–and the prosecutor is a political actor.
The grand jury does not see all the evidence in a case, it does not hear both sides of the legal narrative. The grand jury is not genuinely an adversarial process. The grand jury hears only the narrative that the prosecution wants to present–the defense has no privilege to present its side of the story to the grand jury.
As you might imagine, if a group of people is told only one side of the story, that one side is likely to sound pretty compelling.
That means that it is generally the case that a grand jury returns an indictment if the prosecution wants an indictment returned, and the grand jury returns a no true bill (no indictment) if the prosecution prefers that there be no indictment.
Period.
So, all the grand jury decision to not indict tells us, really, is that the prosecutor, in this case, preferred that there not be an indictment.
That’s not a decision made on the legal merits. That’s a decision that is the result of political calculus.
