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In reply to the discussion: Stand Your Ground? Texas man kills teacher over noise complaint [View all]pacalo
(24,857 posts)He was the aggressor. That makes him wrong from the get-go.
He further escalated the situation with his belligerent, unneighborly behavior. And when he barked at them that he had a gun, I saw an inadequate, sad human being self-affirming that he lacks personality & social skills to get his desired result. So he armed himself with a gun, having read up on the "Stand Your Ground" law to stay "above" it.
His neighbors may have been intoxicated, & perhaps the guy approaching the armed weirdo did so because, in his drunken stupor coupled with flaring testosterone, he momentarily thought he might wrestle the gun from his over-the-top neighbor.
Mr. Troublemaker should have stayed in his home & let the police handle his complaint. This isn't the Wild West when the federal marshall won't show up for months at a time. It generally only takes minutes before an officer shows up; why did he choose to arm himself to confront his neighbors when he was in such an angry mood?