• grue@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    and the right to carry arms, which they need to do.

    The victim was doing exactly that (he was open-carrying an AK-47), which is the pretext the murderer used to falsely claim “stand your ground.”

    In retrospect, the tactically correct thing to do would’ve been for Foster to have preemptively shot Perry through the car window, citing the same “stand your ground” defense (with infinitely more legitimacy, since Perry has just been trying to run over protestors).