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Did the armed person know the driver he was walking towards was armed himself? Your assumption was that was the case. Did the driver show that he was armed himself before firing? To be consistent in my position, if the armed protester walked towards the car and the driver established that he was armed as well and it was the protester that got the shot off before the driver, then I would still maintain a position of self defense justification for the protester despite my opinion that it was not a peaceful assembly.My position on guns isn't relevant. The reason it keeps on being brought up is because YOU are asking for my position.
-It is Texas, not me, that allows for people to walk in the streets carrying weapons typically found on battlefields.
-It is Texas, not me, that states that at person carrying a gun has no responsibility to deescalate a situation when confronted by another person with a gun.
-It is Texas, not me, that determines the law and says when a person can shoot another person in self-defense.
-It is Texas, not me, that as its only concession to public safety, says that a weapon has to be actually aimed at a person to claim self-defense.
It is you, that states that this isn't sufficiently idiotic and states that self-defense can be invoked if an armed person simply walks to another armed person. A position that even Wyatt Earp would have had a problem with. But of course only when the person walking is a leftist. When it's a guy DRIVING himself into a crowd everybody needs to be sensible.