| | | Per Wiki: A stand-your-ground law (sometimes called "line in the sand" or "no duty to retreat" law) provides that people may use deadly force when they reasonably believe it to be necessary to defend against deadly force, great bodily harm, kidnapping, rape, or (in some jurisdictions) robbery or some other serious crimes ...
Virtually everyone, as well as the law, itself, recognizes self defense as a justification for killing. For ordinary situations, most people think it's OK to shoot someone who invades your home in the middle of the night. At the extreme, the stand-your-ground crowd and some law thinks it's OK to shoot someone when you're out and about and feel threatened, simply feel threatened, whether or not that fear is reasonable. (I support the former, not the latter, FWIW.)
That's for ordinary situations. Then there's the matter of secured government people, places, and stuff. If you break into a missile silo, the White House, or Fort Knox, you can reasonably expect to be shot. That's the default. Same goes for the innards of the US Capitol. It was only by some combination of surprised disorganization among the cops, restraint, and luck that no one was shot before reaching the last choke point before the occupied Floor of the House of Representatives.
How could you not get that?
From Wiki: Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or plausible/moral intent, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.
Murder? Really?
Cops have no right to just shoot someone who clearly poses no threat to anyone (keeping in mind there were five or six heavily armed cops RIGHT WHERE SHE WAS STANDING less than ten seconds earlier)
Ten seconds earlier she had been on the far side of the barricaded door of a choke point leading to the Floor of the House, the last defensible spot (see orange on floor plan). When she was shot, she had broken through. Her head and upper body had passed the red line. She had a hoard of people, way too many for the cops to handle, ready to follow.
I don't claim any expertise on police tactics, only common sense and thousands of cop shows on TV. When they defend against an assault, they retreat to the most defensible position, one without a lot of entry points where they can make a stand, then take a covered position with a line of sight to the point of potential entry. They do that when they are protecting a safe house or a school or the police station or whatever. And they shoot upon breach. The script writers do not refer to the defensive positions they take as "hiding." And they do not remotely consider the shooting as attempted murder.
Leftists are supposed to defend the innocent victim
Indeed. Imagine, in this case they are defending the likes of Mike Pence. On principle. Hmmm... |
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