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[quote=sterlingice;2841047]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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I hate hypotheticals when talking about guilt, but ere is mine.
Reverse the situation. There has been a series of breakins in your community. You see someone suspicious walking around the neighborhood. You call the cops and they say tey are on their way. Do you lose sight of the guy or just let it go? What if I change break ins to rapes?
What if I beat the hell out of someone because I think tey are following me?
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