Quote Originally Posted by GunLawyer001 View Post
It's not at all difficult to be falsely accused of making racial remarks, just like it's easy to be called a "racist" by a snowflake on the Internet. It's a reflex action in some communities, not all of them minorities. I would give more weight to the claim that the shooter previously used racist slurs and fired a shot at that parking lot if there was a previous police report and a bullet hole consistent with that story.

I'm not sure how the dead man was "defending" his baby-mama by physically shoving a man who was only talking. "Sticks and stones" and all that; you defend someone who's being attacked with words by using your own words, not by using force.

I have zero sympathy for people who park in handicapped spaces without being handicapped. I'm not even thrilled about people with handicapped tags parking in handicapped spaces so they can walk a couple of miles through a mall, or pick up a load of 4X8 drywall panels. She was in the wrong, so she forfeits her right to be safe from mean words about what she's doing.

You know what you do when you get to the store and there's no legal parking spaces left for you? You don't park, that's what. They weren't showing up at the Emergency Room of the hospital with arterial bleeding, he was there to buy a candy bar (or sell drugs to the store owner, who knows?)

This was a case of lawless, violent thugs encountering a meddler with a gun, and they all chose poorly. But I don't want to live in a world where it's safe to "shove" people, or whatever it was that the dead man chose to do as his last act on Earth.

I'd be interested in knowing the prior criminal history of the dead man. Sounds like his go-to response is violence. Me, if I was the sort to park illegally, I'd just drive away if someone hassled me, with a mumbled apology and a note-to-self to try not to be a parking asshole in the future. But I tend to obey the laws.

You may not use deadly force against an aggressor if you provoked the attack. Saying correctly that "you're parking illegally" is not provocation. Even using the N-word is not provocation, because it's for damned sure that I wouldn't be justified in shooting someone who called me names, which is fortunate indeed for the many folks who've called me names. Look it up yourself, find the last time some white guy was held to be justified in shooting anyone "because he called me a cracker". I bet it was over 50 years ago, and in a Democrat-run state.

The lesson here: Don't be a scofflaw. Don't feel entitled to do whatever you want to whomever you please, because eventually you may run up against someone who's not willing to cut you any slack.
Well said.