Provoking doesn’t necessarily mean annoying. It could be threats, aggression, bragging about his crimes… anything that might make a person want to shoot this guy. And to be fair, this article kinda makes one want to shoot this guy
None of that legally justifies shooting someone. There is only one justifiable reason to shoot someone and that is the save your own or another’s life. And if that is what they meant by “provoke” why not say that?
You may want to shoot someone for all kinds of reasons but we don’t need our media normalizing those kinds of deranged ideas.
Very weird framing that seems to imply if you just annoy someone too much they have no choice but to shoot you?
Provoking doesn’t necessarily mean annoying. It could be threats, aggression, bragging about his crimes… anything that might make a person want to shoot this guy. And to be fair, this article kinda makes one want to shoot this guy
None of that legally justifies shooting someone. There is only one justifiable reason to shoot someone and that is the save your own or another’s life. And if that is what they meant by “provoke” why not say that?
You may want to shoot someone for all kinds of reasons but we don’t need our media normalizing those kinds of deranged ideas.
If he used death threats and said he was going to act on them in the moment?
Then that would qualify as protecting a life. But most threats wouldn’t qualify.
It’s hard to know without details but it does sound weird
I don’t know I’ve met people like that. I just didn’t have a gun at the time.
And that’s why guns should be in communal armories, not the hands of volatile individuals.
Well yeah, but that would involve admitting responsibility we can’t have that. They are American after all.