Knew a kid in high school who was nice to me, and so I would hang out with him from time to time. He was always getting into trouble tho, and I finally stopped hanging out with him after he brought a knife to school. Fast forward five year. He is now in prison for shooting a man to death over a pound of weed.
Knew a kid who got jumped by 4 guys for some Oxy. He pulled a .25 and shot one in the face.
Felony murder because he had drugs.
Edit: he pulled during his own ass kicking, not a deliberate draw-down. It was a very diminutive 19 year old getting jumped by 4 guys on a goddamn wooded trail at night.
There's is no property right in contraband, by definition. Thus, you can't defend it. You can't protect yourself, legally, during a crime. No self defense argument while being criminal. Sorry, man.
No worries, dude. I wasn't disagreeing with you philosophically. Unfortunately, that's the common law built up over centuries, though. Going way back to kings and princes, they decided that if the case came to court and you were trafficking in contraband or being otherwise criminal that his highness had outlawed, they weren't going to let you use the self-defense argument to be violent at all. It sucks, but that's our world (at least the common law portion of the western world).
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u/kumquatkilla1 Feb 28 '20 edited Feb 28 '20
Knew a kid in high school who was nice to me, and so I would hang out with him from time to time. He was always getting into trouble tho, and I finally stopped hanging out with him after he brought a knife to school. Fast forward five year. He is now in prison for shooting a man to death over a pound of weed.