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In reply to the discussion: A man claiming self-defense shot another man to death at a Walmart near my house... [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)We don't even know yet what happened... who started the fight or what was happening at the point that the man pulled the trigger. It very well might have been legitimate self-defense. You're just assuming that it was the shooter who started the fight and couldn't have been in actual fear of his life or severe bodily harm. A fist fight certainly can be deadly. Happens quite a bit. Personally, I'd not want to be beaten up to the point that I end up dying or severely maimed in order to find that out.
Several years ago there was a case in my area where a guy that was thrown out a strip club tried to get back in and the bouncers (or one bouncer) got into a fight with him. One bouncer punched him one time, and the guy fell and cracked his head on the concrete. Two or three weeks later he died in the hospital. One punch.
Wasn't there another case several years ago discussed here that a police officer tasered a woman, she fell and hit her head and died?
Yes, someone can be involved in a fistfight and have a legitimate fear of death or severe bodily harm. I'm not sure why anyone would try to argue that. I'm also not sure why anyone with no facts yet other than the fact that there was a physical fight automatically believes that the shooter started it or that he had no legitimate right to shoot. How about we wait for some actual facts to come out first before assigning blame? Geez, even the police don't know what happened yet.