The headline on the latest Washington Post opinion page piece on the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha reads:
I understand that the writer is very upset at what they seem to think is a miscarriage of justice, based on their legal training from old Law & Order reruns, but...um...I've got some bad news for them. Neither the number of shots nor the range they were delivered at have any bearing at all on the legality of the shooting.
The question is not how many times the shooter shoots or what range he shoots at, it's:
"Are you in reasonable fear of immediate, otherwise unavoidable, death or grievous bodily harm to yourself or another innocent person?"If there's a dude within arm's length of me who's not dropping the knife, well...
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