Florida Man Claims Self-Defense After Hopping A Fence To Shoot, Kill 21-Year-Old In A Hoodie

[Lizzie Poppet]

75. Of course. But that's not what the poster I responded to said.

Nor are they equivalent. The poster claimed that the fantasy was to "hunt and kill a human." I don't hunt anything, human or animal. In a defensive situation, I'd be shooting to stop, not kill (and only one in five non-suicide gunshot victims dies). I'd vastly prefer that an attacker did not die, in fact.

I have shot at vaguely human-looking targets on occasion: those blocky, squarish silhouette kind. I don't buy them, though (I much prefer traditional "bulls-eye" targets, as I've been trained to focus on a very small target area, not something as large as a human silhouette). But sometimes that's what's in place at some of the ranges I go to. I object rather strongly to the realistic style targets that represent some sort of stereotype, like a Middle-Eastern "terrorist" or a black "thug."

Moreover, equating the sort of "fantasy" that poster was rather obviously invoking and training with one's weapon is a self-serving, inaccurate conflation of mental states. Obviously. It's the same sort of regrettably typical "telepsychoanalysis" that these gun threads always feature so prominently. Pure forum cancer...