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SilveryMoon

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Tue Nov 27, 2012, 10:36 PM Nov 2012

Argument over loud music led to teen's fatal shooting, cops say

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-teen-shot-dead-loud-music-20121126,0,4320738.story

A Brevard County man was in jail Monday, accused of shooting a teenager dead in an argument over loud music.

Jordan Russell Davis, 17, and several other teenagers were sitting in a sport utility vehicle in the parking lot when Dunn pulled up next to them in a car and asked them to turn down their music, Schoonover said.

Jordan and Dunn exchanged words, and Dunn pulled a gun and shot eight or nine times, striking Jordan twice, Schoonover said. Jordan was sitting in the back seat. No one else was hurt.

Dunn's attorney Monday said her client acted responsibly and in self-defense. She did not elaborate.

Dunn, a gun collector, was arrested Saturday at his home in Satellite Beach on charges of murder and attempted murder. He was being held without bai


How sad.
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Argument over loud music led to teen's fatal shooting, cops say (Original Post) SilveryMoon Nov 2012 OP
The NRA assholes have tried to stretch the definition of "self-defense" to the breaking point Bjorn Against Nov 2012 #1
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Bjorn Against

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1. The NRA assholes have tried to stretch the definition of "self-defense" to the breaking point
Tue Nov 27, 2012, 11:04 PM
Nov 2012

I certainly recognize there are legitimate cases of self defense, but the NRA nuts who constantly talk about how great self defense is scare the hell out of me. Now one has apparently stretched the definition of self defense so far that protecting yourself from hearing loud music is grounds for killing.

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Nov 2012

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