Well... understandable then. Afaik, in a lot of cases, just shooting someone can sometimes be legally safer since corpses can't testify (This is not legal advice, and for self-defense purposes you should not shoot at anyone unless you are reasonably in fear for your life and have exhausted all other options, and firing a warning shot does not count as an option).
I know, I mean more in a "legally safe bet if you don't happen to know state laws and least less ethically questionable in any case" way. Generally the advice given for self defense emphasizes that if you have pulled your gun out, something has gone VERY VERY WRONG.
Oh yeah, that would be the reasonable person's self defense use of a firearm.
Quoth the internet, because I wasn't 100% sure:
The 'stand your ground' law will end Arkansas' duty to retreat if the person using deadly force is not a felon, is lawfully present, has a reasonable belief they are being threatened, is not engaged in criminal activity and if the person is not the initial aggressor
... Or defend themselves and then get punished for having a firearm or using a firearm (if able to disarm attacker), hit with a manslaughter charge, violating probation, etc.
I had a thought but I'm not going to do the work of trying to figure out what the racial breakdown of felons in Arkansas is to figure out if there are more minority felons than white felons, so I'll be a bad person and guess that there's a touch of racism involved.
Hold on, who threatened to murder who initially? Boogie or Frank?
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Well... understandable then. Afaik, in a lot of cases, just shooting someone can sometimes be legally safer since corpses can't testify (This is not legal advice, and for self-defense purposes you should not shoot at anyone unless you are reasonably in fear for your life and have exhausted all other options, and firing a warning shot does not count as an option).
Pretty sure Arkansas is a "stand your ground anywhere" state.
I know, I mean more in a "legally safe bet if you don't happen to know state laws and least less ethically questionable in any case" way. Generally the advice given for self defense emphasizes that if you have pulled your gun out, something has gone VERY VERY WRONG.
Oh yeah, that would be the reasonable person's self defense use of a firearm.
Quoth the internet, because I wasn't 100% sure:
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... Or defend themselves and then get punished for having a firearm or using a firearm (if able to disarm attacker), hit with a manslaughter charge, violating probation, etc.
I had a thought but I'm not going to do the work of trying to figure out what the racial breakdown of felons in Arkansas is to figure out if there are more minority felons than white felons, so I'll be a bad person and guess that there's a touch of racism involved.