Here's a problem I see that has yet to be addressed.
I will first take a real life experience of my own back in the late 1980's
I was followed by a vehicle with 4 college aged punks. I ignored them as I figured they would get bored following me. I was wrong. This started at 12 and Van Dyke in Warren. I lived not far from 9 mile and Hoover back then. Heading home I realized they were still following me and had to make a decision to NOT ho directly home, as I didn't need them knowing where I lived if they were as stupid as I eventually found out they were. I took a detour into Detroit's 8 Mile and Hoover/Groesbeck industrial area hoping they would break off and maybe I was being overly paranoid. I passed a buddies home which I had hoped was home but he wasn't so I circled the blocks and they were now closing in on me fast. I could hear threats shouted and one morons threw beer bottle at my car. They finally started to literally tail gate me to the point that if I stopped I knew they would jump from their car and assault me. I made a turn on an unfamiliar street and found out it was a dead end with no sign saying it was. Near the end of that street I quickly negotiated a 180 facing them. All they could see is my headlights. all 4 morons exited the car with baseball bats and one idiot had a gulf club and the last had a tire iron. As they approached I warned them to leave or else. Two morons coming running at me then suddenly stopped as they saw my Colt 70 series Government Model staring at them. They broke and back peddled screaming he has a gun. I warned them to drop their weapons or I would start shooting and they complied. I let them leave instead of risk the need to shoot them in case they got even more stupid.
The Police did stop them and they were arrested after a quick call from me.
Now how do we know this man with his children didn't have a similar situation where standing his ground was better than trying to flee and risk someone ramming his car? We don't!
He may have had no better option than stand his ground. The claims words were exchanged could be him telling them to leave him alone or something legitimate. We don't know. Fact is the dead man is a known thug who has tried to MURDER someone in the past, he has a known record of violence, so why do people Monday Morning Quarterback the man who defended his children?
I agree with DR Todd, I might stand and fight when alone, but never with innocents in my protection, I will do anything to protect them PERIOD!
I grow weary of that group on this site who always take the anti gunners mentality or side, no matter how messed up it is.
Was thinking EXACTLY the same thing. I liked how immediately after the newsreader mentioned that little bit of information, the daughter states: "He was a good dad..."
I also had to appreciate the great acting skills that the wife/girlfirend of the one who died had to have to actually state that the shooter needed counseling because he shot her spouse/boyfriend while the shooter's children were in the car. What the #$%# was he going to do... let someone possibly hurt his kids? I would be much more willing to take a beating with my children absent than have them present.
The real question is why A GROUP OF ADULTS (the attackers) would continue the attack, surrounding a person in their car, when there are children present. Her spouse/boyfriend was culpable on that issue alone. Her criticism of the CPL holder seems much more applicable to her significant other than the person she is attempting to blame.
I hate to say it because usually I think something like this could have been avoided if either person would have just dropped their ego a little, but good riddance. It appears the CPL holder attempted to leave, kids were in the car, and the cpl holder was outnumbered...imho, the person who was shot did everything possible to have a few chunks of lead sent in his direction... and the shooter obliged him. Case closed.
