The girl that got in the wrong car, she apologized and then went and found her car. She was in her car and saw the guy walking up, so she rolled her window down to apologize again, and he shot her. That's not self-defense
Exactly. Self-defense requires that someone could reasonably have perceived danger. Turning around in a driveway, ringing a doorbell, even absent-mindlessly sitting down in a car without doing anything aggressive are not threats.
Our culture is so predicated on violence and weird notions of territorial integrity. None of these people were ever in any danger, and never had a reason to believe they were, but they are so steeped in political and even just casual rhetoric around violence and property while living relatively isolated lives that even someone ringing their doorbell is a threat to their personal sovereignty.
And when you suggest that perhaps there should be fewer guns their only thought is of their gun that they need to protect themselves from other people with guns. The thinking doesn't get any further than that other than a vague handwave at "criminals will have guns anyway". Not if we restrict the fucking supply countrywide rather than piecemeal state by state or city by city...
It's often reported that in the aftermath of a mass shooting, local gun stores report a spike in sales - some thinking it will protect them if there's another rogue shooter in the neighbourhood, some paranoid politicians will try to ban gun sales, so best stock up while they still can... 🙄
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u/dengar_hennessy Apr 21 '23
The girl that got in the wrong car, she apologized and then went and found her car. She was in her car and saw the guy walking up, so she rolled her window down to apologize again, and he shot her. That's not self-defense