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Good Shoot ? Bad Shoot ?
Nemo:
Thoughts? Click link and watch video before responding.
Nemo
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-shooting-pool-cleaner-stand-your-ground-laws-1809194
Jackalope:
An unfortunate situation. The article states the Lt. Col. shot through glass, which indicates that the victim had not entered the home. It was dark and the pool cleaner made no effort to contact the homeowner prior to his arrival. I bet the pool cleaner won't make that mistake again.
In my opinion, it was a bad shoot. In most States, you cannot shoot someone for stealing or damaging property. It doesn't appear that the pool cleaner made any attempt to enter the dwelling, so there's no immediate threat, except someone is in your yard. The homeowner was lucky that he didn't actually hit the fellow with his shots.
grizz:
Not nearly enough info to make a call on whether it was a good or bad shoot.
pkveazey:
Hmmm.... I watched the video and I think the homeowner is a dumbass. He should know who or what he is shooting at. OK, he might have been afraid for himself and his family "BUT" what he did was clearly "Reckless endangerment". What I want to know is, at that short distance, How the Hell did he miss?
Felix:
My heart breaks, watching the video, w/911 recorded conversation.
One of my "puppy-buyer" "associates" owns a pool cleaning business over in coastal, lower,California. He is younger than the age of shooter (from what I gather of the recordings). That's one of the points I come from, no _detailed_ knowledge of the biz, certainly not this one.
Now, in the aftermath, I think the homeowner is likely to spend a great deal on lawyers, might be ruined. The courts/jury must assume that in a sane world, he is to be of normally functional discernment (within the growing bounds of what is mutually agreed upon as "sanity").
My take?
Some "sketchy" pool service company, trying to make ends meet with entry-level ground troops, failed to contact customers and inform them that to make up for "behind schedule" service, they were working their pool-cleaning techs into "after-hours".
And the older gentleman homeowner, unapprised of this attempt to restore schedules undertook ZERO investigation before sending lead down range. And once he started pulling the trigger, he couldn't help himself, commitment being commitment.
Self-defense proponents KNOW this will become a landmark.
Aberration?
No matter.
News and sound bytes are calibrated for those with the attention span and critical thinking skills of a gnat.
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