Road rage....... Think twice
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From: Portland OR
Neutron82, you are right on about protecting your property and to those that claim one is dead wrong for using deadly force then I can only tell you that the state of TEXAS is dead wrong as they allow one to shoot anyone who is on your property to either harm you or attempting to steal from you.GOD BLESS TEXAS
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I am usually the guy who is always trying to stay out of the way of everybody.....trying to avoid trouble. If I make a mistake I'm the first one to wave and mouth a sorry about that.....and smile. I'll do whatever I can to avoid trouble.......If they made the mistake I usually just ignore it....(no blood, no foul, no harm done) But, I am also the first guy that if someone wants a piece of me so bad they insist on being an turd....I pull over and am willing to pay whatever price it takes to stop them from hurting me, my family or some innocent bystander/driver.
Part of the problem this day and age, is hardly anyone stands up to these selfish, entitled, cocky, wanna b's..... they've never been told NO, or stood up to....usually they are reasonable...apologetic......or RUN.
I guess I've been lucky the half dozen or so situations we've had...they've never gone to blows.....most have ended with a handshake and have a great day.......
Hope I never have to stare down the barrel of a gun....but, if I do I am ready to meet my maker.
Just boils down to one question "Is this the hill I want to die on?"
Part of the problem this day and age, is hardly anyone stands up to these selfish, entitled, cocky, wanna b's..... they've never been told NO, or stood up to....usually they are reasonable...apologetic......or RUN.
I guess I've been lucky the half dozen or so situations we've had...they've never gone to blows.....most have ended with a handshake and have a great day.......
Hope I never have to stare down the barrel of a gun....but, if I do I am ready to meet my maker.
Just boils down to one question "Is this the hill I want to die on?"
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From: Georgia
While the "law" is so often malleable to prove destructive to the good guys, think Zimmerman, one is left to wonder whether we've moved beyond good sense and rationality in our defense of criminal behavior. While one would hope to acknowledge the difference between a lawn mower left in your back yard and the violent potential of breaking and entering your garage to get it, the law in many states certainly does just that. In many of the better, less criminal friendly states, it can be assumed that the burglar in your home is there to do you violence and you have the right to kill them. Well, better said, you have the right to assert self defense as a defense against manslaughter. Wise legislators made the correct assumption that the type of person who would invade your home is the type of person that is dangerous to the point that forcing a homeowner to distill the threat down further into its legal components would be dangerous territory, at least some of the time, and society is better served by a person not having to contend with that choice and instead ventilate the criminal burglar.
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At the time I moved in front of him I was unaware of any hostility he had toward me. As a former certified advanced driving instructor, one who has trained hundreds of professional drivers how to drive more safely, the safest place to have an unsafe driver is behind you. It wasn't until I'd removed him from my driving situation that he decided to put himself back into it.
By putting yourself right slap dap in the middle of this clowns sights, you removed your ability to act and forced yourself to have to react to what he did. You were a couple of steps behind after that, and by your own accounting that is exactly what happened.
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