Are SYG laws weapon agnostic?

[freshwest]

59. I'm interested in the answers to this question:

Can I throw someone from the top of a big building and claim SYG?

While throwing someone off a building does have a certain satisfying appeal, it might still fit the definition of self-defense if you were being mugged. You could stay on the building and be 'standing your ground.' Even though the person tossed thought it was their ground, too.

There was a case of a father who took his son and jumped to their death reported on DU a while back, and that seemed like a murder-suicide, but at that time, they didn't say. It appeared to be a child custody affair, and I'm speculating that the father thought his son being with the mother was worse than death, so he felt he was defending him. Or it could have been revenge, which is what a lot of SYG seems to be.

As your other examples are of weapons, and there would be no weapon involved except oneself, and if one jumped with them there might not be a SYG crime. I think this is what you are getting at, the intent without specificity to method. There was the case of the SYG in N.M. with the kick boxer, no weapons but his hands and feet, although the intruder had a knife on him, IIRC.

Back to throwing a person off a building, though. So what if you jump along with them? Is it suicide or murder? Or both? And whose ground is being stood upon in that case?

Didn't Riggs throw him off the building?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.