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Originally Posted by RainMaker
That does seem like a weird loophole. The case is weird and complex, but it still seems bizarre that the guy chasing the minor around with a gun ends up claiming self-defense.
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My thoughts as well.
If I were being followed by some creepy guy, I might try to lose him and then beat the snot out of him because I fear for my safety. And, suddenly, because he has a gun, he can pretty much end me whereas I'm very unlikely to kill him by my own hand alone.
This is the part I have a hard time reconciling mentally in the case: I'm trying to figure out what Martin did wrong. And, I know this is not how the world works, but it seems unfair that the person doing nothing wrong was killed without any repercussions. It would be one thing if it were an accident: but we even have charges for vehicular manslaughter or negligence.
A person died, a person doing the wrong thing killed him, yet there is no crime. Yet I realize: I don't know how to fix the situation. As the laws are written, I don't think he did a crime. And I don't think there needs to be another law written to make what happened a crime. So not only did something wrong happen but there's no real way to fix it that I can discern.
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