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In reply to the discussion: POLICE: VEGAS MOM, SON SEARCHED FOR VEHICLE BEFORE SHOOTING [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)45. The story is only confusing, if you want the woman to be the aggressor
The woman did look for the car and found it. The woman did follow it for about five minutes, THEN SHE WENT HOME. She had her adult son with her and he was armed but NO REPORT THAT HE DID ANYTHING WITH THE PISTOL TILL SOMEONE ELSE OPENED FIRE. Thus the Woman had RETREATED (as that term is used in the law). The next fact we have is someone drove to HER HOME and started to open fire. That is simple. She was NO longer the aggressor (if she ever was) WAY before this shooting started. She and her son had retreated and only defended themselves when someone else opened fire.
Some people may not like how this story goes, but it sounds plausible to me.
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We gots guns and we gonna use them. Killing is SO much easier to settle scores when you have a gun.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#10
The problem was that the prosecution didn't present an alternative narrative
Taitertots
Feb 2015
#59
That's actually what I meant. The mother & son were the aggressors, hunting the other party with a
Coventina
Feb 2015
#19
There is no report of any confrontation except when her daughter was driving AND the shooting
happyslug
Feb 2015
#46
We have gone completely off the rails as a culture and society. How much further proof do you need?
Hestia
Feb 2015
#22
Of course she was looking for trouble. She went with her armed son looking for the
still_one
Feb 2015
#31
So which one was the good guy with the gun that stopped the bad guy with the gun!?
villager
Feb 2015
#35
There's something wrong when a mother goes and gets her 22-year old son who has a gun.
hamsterjill
Feb 2015
#55
She and her armed son became the aggressors when they got in the car to find the car and
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2015
#60