You can't "Stand Your Ground" if you cross the line...

[Pete7469]

Florida gun owner who claimed self-defense convicted in 'Stand Your Ground' case

The defendant, Michael Drejka, was accused of killing Markeis McGlockton in the parking lot of a convenience store in Clearwater on July 19, 2018, after arguing with McGlockton's girlfriend over a handicapped parking space. Drejka claimed he fatally shot McGlockton in self-defense.

I'll probably find myself in disagreement with many in the 2A community, but here's my thoughts.

Drejka was not a parking enforcement cop. He had no business confronting anyone and caused the circumstance to escalate.

If you carry a weapon, you can not walk around correcting people. You don't even have to intervene in a criminal assault against innocent people. It's not your lane. I mind my own business. I may call LEO's to the place I see shenanigans and fuckery afoot, but unless there's an imminent threat to life that I know is worth protecting, I have better things to do than waste ammo, thousands of dollars in legal defense and possibly years of my life because some people are assholes.

That's just what I took from the case. Mind your own business, don't fuck with people what don't need to be fucked with.


Didn't see a thread on it, Mods Merge as needed.

 

[harmonica]

1. if you're not a cop, you are STARTING a confrontation when you do crap like this
--yes--it is [ should be ] COMMON SENSE and common knowledge [ to people with logical thinking ] when you try to ''enforce'' traffic violations/etc and you are not a cop it WILL start a problem
..if you are not a cop and try to tell me I'm violating parking laws/ etc, I will tell you to FOFF
...''most'' males will tell you to FOFF--per link below/etc
here's ANOTHER parking lot wannabe cop jackass
....Man, 65, charged after Amazon driver shot during argument over Target store parking spot
.people get pissed when COPS give them tickets--is it right? no--NATURAL/human to do? -YES
2. it was obvious the victim was retreating --don't even try to argue that--it's on video

 

[JOSweetHeart]

According to the write up, the guy who is no longer here was shot after turning away. That reminds me of a kid that Danny had to deal with on the Blue Bloods show. The kid used his dad's weapon because he was afraid that the intruders would come back for more later on.

God bless you and those who self defend always!!!

Holly

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I'm 2A and think he over stepped.

The lesson here is don't over react... especially over something as trivial as a parking space.

 

[EduardBernstein]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control and responsibility.

 

[2aguy]

How about you don't assault someone who calls you out for bad parking......physically attacking someone over a parking space started this encounter...... sitting in a chair in front of a computer is a lot different than facing a guy standing over you after a violent attack....

 

[2aguy]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

 

[harmonica]

..I was looking at some comments elsewhere and a pro-Drejka guy said if someone told him he was parked illegally, he would say ''OK'' and move
...BULLFNSHIT!!!! plain and simple .

 

[harmonica]

How about you don't assault someone who calls you out for bad parking......physically attacking someone over a parking space started this encounter...... sitting in a chair in front of a computer is a lot different than facing a guy standing over you after a violent attack....

hahahahahaha
..he's another jackass who STARTED crap when he didn't need to
..these people are not thinking logically

 

[EduardBernstein]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

Your overuse of Nazi is getting extremely annoying. Not everyone you disagree with is a Nazi. In fact I doubt there are any one this forum

 

[2aguy]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

The only racists here are you and the other democrats, you asshat....the democrat party is the party of racism...the core groups of the party are all openly racist, the leadership is openly racist.....so sell that crap somewhere else.....

 

[JOSweetHeart]

How about you don't assault someone who calls you out for bad parking......physically attacking someone over a parking space started this encounter...... sitting in a chair in front of a computer is a lot different than facing a guy standing over you after a violent attack....

I second this. Don't get anything started and then there won't be anything to escalate.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[2aguy]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

Your overuse of Nazi is getting extremely annoying. Not everyone you disagree with is a Nazi. In fact I doubt there are any one this forum

There are about 6 actual nazis in the entire country....

 

[harmonica]

again--again--you people are shallow thinkers--thinking in TV land terms
these are dynamic situations
..if some jackass was harassing your FAMILY--YOU would be also knock that guy on his ass--DON'T try to LIE and say you wouldn't

 

[Pete7469]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control and responsibility.

This isn't "The Wild West", that's true, and the folk lore and myths of "The Wild West" are just that. When there was no gun control, there were LESS shootings and people had to be responsible for their actions or they died.

The more you attempt to "control" people, the less responsibility they have to take for their actions.


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[EduardBernstein]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

The only racists here are you and the other democrats, you asshat....the democrat party is the party of racism...the core groups of the party are all openly racist, the leadership is openly racist.....so sell that crap somewhere else.....

Tree of life killed Jews by an antisemitic Nazi with guns. Why make it easy for Nazis to have access to guns? You are an enabler.

 

[2aguy]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

The only racists here are you and the other democrats, you asshat....the democrat party is the party of racism...the core groups of the party are all openly racist, the leadership is openly racist.....so sell that crap somewhere else.....

Tree of life killed Jews by antisemitic Nazis with guns. Why make it easy for Nazis to have access to guns? You are an enabler.

The only political party that is openly anti-semitic is the democrat party, you doofus...

You mean all 6 nazis?

There are over 600 million guns in this country and as more Americans own and carry guns, over the last 26 years our gun murder rate went down 49%....sell you b.s. somewhere else...

 

[2aguy]

This is not the wild wild west. Civilization requires gun control sand responsibility.

The Wild West wasn't wild...because people had guns...

Proof? You gun touting Nazis love to keep your guns. Just in case a you are bothered by the brown peoples.

The only racists here are you and the other democrats, you asshat....the democrat party is the party of racism...the core groups of the party are all openly racist, the leadership is openly racist.....so sell that crap somewhere else.....

Tree of life killed Jews by antisemitic Nazis with guns. Why make it easy for Nazis to have access to guns? You are an enabler.

Muslim shooter in Florida....

Bernie Brother at the Republican baseball team...

The environmental fascist at El Paso...

The Bernie sanders and elizabeth warren supporter at Dayton.....

and the guy at Tree of Life was another socialist.....

 

[Jitss617]

This was a black guy that shoved a smaller guy of another race, the man was disoriented, he reacted like he should have. The black thought this was in a rap video and lost.. the man should do NO TIME!
The black was racist, and violent.