In 2007 Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 378 which extends a person’s right to stand their ground beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces, allowing the reasonable use of deadly force when an intruder is:
- Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes;
- Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place
so he's in his home, safe as safe can be, clutching his rifle. he then leaves his house and shoots two people dead seconds before cops arrive.
he wasn't defending himself, he was serving vigilante justice.
he was not on defense, he was on offense. he chased the kid. he left his place of safety. it can not be called self "defense" when he was on the offense.
you can shoot someone who is not threatening your life just because they are breaking into someone else's house or protected place. you should probably read the stuff in your own posts, genius.
fuck your experts. if i can neutralize the threat without a person's life on my hands, i will do just that.
nuts that support SYG also generally stand with the branch davidians who wrote their own death certificate. should they have been tried by 12, or carried by 6, as SYG promoters often like to say?
defense is one thing, going on the offense to kill someone is another, and that's what SYG allows. if your life is truly threatened, you are able to use deadly force without resorting to SYG. SYG is a license to legal murder ad vigilantism.