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Vandal wrote:
The question of "Did she antagonize him?" is legitimate in this case. It has absolutely nothing do do with other females who have been abused, attacked or raped. If the female suspect antagonized the victim, then the case of self-defense is not applicable.
I am personally sick of all of this "she must have shot in SD because she is a female and he is a crazy acting male" and the cops should have left her alone and taken her home and given her protection BS. I guess all of the past 100+ years of women working for equal rights and treatment is out the window when she pulls the trigger and now has to be protected because of gender. Yes, I went there.
Until more info comes out, I am still saying bad shoot, maybe not legally but it is pushing the gray area big time. There are way too many variables in this that don't add up. Argument+so-called lunging+ spit should not equal shooting. If so, we should be having many more shootings just like this.
Well since you went there I will too. Men are bigger than women. Men are stronger than women. Not in EVERY case but in the overwhelming majority of individuals, this is so. It hasn't been said if this woman was a body builder & her assailant was a midget, but I doubt if that was the case:quirky. If a much larger, stronger person attacks a smaller, weaker person, that establishes disparate force, as others have said. That case from West Seattle a few weeks ago reminds us that even a single punch can be lethal. Add that to larger vs. smaller. The mental stability of the guy has been questioned as well. A mentally unstable person is much less likely to be halted by the mere
sight of a gun pointed at them. If the stop this woman got off at is NOT her regular stop, nor his, which is what it sounds like, then that shows she was trying to get away from the situation rather than escalate it. And IF he did lunge at her that is a clear attack with intention to harm, demanding a split second life-or-death decision.
Antagonizing is irrelevant, no matter how antagonized he was he has no justification to attack her. If she
instigated the confrontation that's another matter, as it is if she then tried to diffuse it by leaving.
Once again we don't have all the facts here, and this argument is really starting to get out into "what-if" land, but let me break this down.
IF the man is much bigger and stronger than this woman, and IF he is mentally unstable, and IF she got off before her usual stop to get away from him, and IF he followed and this was NOT his usual stop, IF she first displayed the gun and told him to stop, and IF he
then lunged at her in a clear attempt to do harm (and this is indeed what the situation sounds like to me from the few facts known),
then:
GOOD ON HER FOR POPPING THE S.O.B. ONE CUZ THE PSYCHO HAD IT COMING!
Now if this is, in fact, not the case, then we'll continue to back & forth over this till we're all blue in the face & not change a durn thing :lol: