After watching the Ahmaud Arbery case & my own experience of what I've been through! I've been attacked to where my home was broken into & me & my daughter became a victim getting hit! But we lived to tell about it! This wasn't the only encounter for me "OR" my family had experienced by being attacked! But for someone thinking it's ok to take the law in their own hands is wrong. I don't care if a person used to be a Judge a cop- President, Senator "OR" a Congressman it doesn't matter who you are the rules still apply no matter what you do! "OR" what you once we're!! Where I'm from we had a judge that went to jail after behaving inappropriately In court! In order for this world to stay balanced it is up to us all & is based on how we all work together! Is it considered Citizen Arrest to grab a Gun "OR" jump behind a wheel?? To attack someone out of the blue!! Is it a make my day law when someone loses their life by jogging down a road?? As said in the old history book over Slander & Libel a person may have freedom of speech but you can't yell fire in a crowded (theater) room whether "OR" not it actually cause for that exception to being the 1st Amendment!
Are you familiar with gaslighting? It's a form of emotional and psychological manipulation that is engaged in to make a person doubt their own experiences and things they know to be true.
Stand your ground has very little if anything to do with the Arbery case. Stand your ground is generally used to mean that if you're in your home (the castle doctrine) that you do not have to retreat or try to get away from an armed intruder before being allowed to use a weapon in self defense.
No matter what some members of this board alleged as fact, nor how the prosecution attempts to portray this shooting, it wouldn't have happened had not the defendants made several erroneous assumption about Arbery in order to justify their aggression towards him. If they hadn't
initiated a
armed confrontation with him, the shooting in all likihood would have never occurred. Only punks start a fight, then claim that they were being attacked and had to use their weapon in self-defense, when it's written right into the self-defense laws that the shooter can not have initiated the altercation/confrontation and then claim self-defense. But they know this, they just ignore it because otherwise it would get in their way of doing exactly what they want.
There are several people here who will claim this is a clear case of self defense, but self defense would not have been necessary had they not taken it upon themselves to play wanna be cops and attempt to chase Arbery down so that they could allegedly interrogate him at the side of the road, with the weapons being there only as a precaution.
Please do not buy into that narrative.
If you are in a situation where you're not as safe as you want to be and if you have some way to secure a weapon from your potential abuser or any criminal, legally acquire a weapon, find a good instructor, you don't have to become a sharpshooter, just put in enough practice until you're confident you can hit your target.
Please read up on everything you can regarding WHEN you can use your weapon to protect your life or the lives of other family members. If you can get some types of cameras so that you can voice activate them if you find yourself in a dire situation that will record everything being said and done in the event you have to use your weapon, especially if you're female. Women get prosecuted more frequently and more severely for killing their abusers, you don't want to end up being one of their statistics of any kind.
I know it's not always possible, but it's always better to at least have a chance to defend yourself and not have to depend on how magnanamous the criminal with the gun is feeling on whether you live or die.
